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Overview
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Shintarô Ishihara (writer)
Release Date:
12 July 1956 (Japan)
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Plot:
Spending their summer on an exotic beach, two brothers fall for the same beautiful girl, whose charm and looks may hide more than they they bargained for. | add synopsis
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Beach
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Generation Gap
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Young Love
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Japan
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Ukulele
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Crazed Fruit
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Ayuko Fujishiro | ... | Mother | |
| Taizô Fukami | ... | Father | |
| Mie Kitahara | ... | Eri | |
| Harold Conway | ... | Eri's husband | |
| Masumi Okada | ... | Hirosawa Frank | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Youko Benisawa | ... | Kamakura Housekeeper | |
| Eiko Higashitani | ... | Michiko | |
| Shintarô Ishihara | |||
| Yûjirô Ishihara | ... | Takishima Natsuhisa | |
| Hiroshi Kondô | ... | Harbormaster | |
| Yôko Takeuchi | ... | Kamakura's Tenant | |
| Masahiko Tsugawa | ... | Takishima Haruji | |
| Noriko Watari | ... | Eri's Friend | |
| Zenji Yamada | ... | Fisherman | |
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86 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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Canada:G (Quebec)
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François Truffaut was so taken with the film that he recommended it to the Cinematheque; this was the first Japanese film awarded that honor.
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Continuity: Haruji is loading groceries into a car outside a small grocery stall. Eri rides up on her bike and starts talking to him. Right behind Haruji can be seen a wall clock, the hands of which indicate a time of 4:35. The camera switches to Eri's face for a few seconds, then back to Haru, but now the clock indicates a time of 4:29.
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Remade as Kuang lian shi (1968)
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Soundtrack:
Sobre las olas (Over the Waves)
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Ko Nakahira's Crazed Fruit is, to put it mildly, an immensely welcome addition to the Criterion roster. It is uniquely modernist, impressionistically rendered, sensual in its physicality, and absolutely unlike anything to precede it in Japanese cinema. To put it bluntly, Ko's film is as significant a break from aesthetic (and moral) traditions as Godard's Breathless would prove to be two years later. The story nominally an attempt to cash in on the "sun tribe" fashion, whereby children of the wealthy would wile away their summers sun bathing and boating (an unthinkable luxury before the 1950s) follows the travails of two selfish and licentious brothers whose love of the same girl yields to hyperbolic tragedy of epic proportions. Whether the ending is meant as a conservative suggestion of the moral repercussions precipitated by the making idle of one's hands, or something more bleakly Sartrean, is up to interpretation. What is clear is that none who see it shall ever forget. An epochal masterpiece, based on a book by the current mayor of Tokyo!