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Meshi

  • 19511951
  • 1h 37m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
1.7K
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Meshi (1951)
Drama
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
1.7K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Mikio Naruse
  • Writers
    • Toshirô Ide(screenplay)
    • Sumie Tanaka(screenplay)
    • Yasunari Kawabata(scenario supervisor)
  • Stars
    • Ken Uehara
    • Setsuko Hara
    • Yukiko Shimazaki
  • Director
    • Mikio Naruse
  • Writers
    • Toshirô Ide(screenplay)
    • Sumie Tanaka(screenplay)
    • Yasunari Kawabata(scenario supervisor)
  • Stars
    • Ken Uehara
    • Setsuko Hara
    • Yukiko Shimazaki
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 12User reviews
    • 22Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
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    • Awards
      • 9 wins

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    Setsuko Hara in Meshi (1951)
    Yukiko Shimazaki and Ken Uehara in Meshi (1951)
    Setsuko Hara and Ken Uehara in Meshi (1951)
    Setsuko Hara in Meshi (1951)
    Setsuko Hara in Meshi (1951)
    Setsuko Hara and Yukiko Shimazaki in Meshi (1951)
    Setsuko Hara in Meshi (1951)
    Setsuko Hara in Meshi (1951)
    Setsuko Hara and Yukiko Shimazaki in Meshi (1951)
    Setsuko Hara and Ken Uehara in Meshi (1951)
    Yukiko Shimazaki in Meshi (1951)
    Setsuko Hara and Ken Uehara in Meshi (1951)

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    Ken Uehara
    Ken Uehara
    • Hatsunosuke Okamoto
    Setsuko Hara
    Setsuko Hara
    • Michiyo Okamoto
    Yukiko Shimazaki
    • Satoko Okamoto
    Yôko Sugi
    • Mitsuko Murata, Michiyo's sister-in-law
    Akiko Kazami
    • Seiko Tomiyasu
    Haruko Sugimura
    Haruko Sugimura
    • Matsu Murata, Michiyo's mother
    Ranko Hanai
    Ranko Hanai
    • Koyoshi Dohya
    Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
    Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
    • Kazuo Takenaka
    Keiju Kobayashi
    • Shinzo Murata, Michiyo's brother
    Akira Ôizumi
    Akira Ôizumi
    Ichirô Shimizu
    Haruo Tanaka
    Haruo Tanaka
    Sô Yamamura
    Sô Yamamura
    Chieko Nakakita
    Chieko Nakakita
    • Keiko Yamakita
    Sayuri Tanima
    Mitsue Tachibana
    • Katsuko Suzuki
    Kumeko Otowa
    Yaeko Izumo
    • Director
      • Mikio Naruse
    • Writers
      • Toshirô Ide(screenplay)
      • Sumie Tanaka(screenplay)
      • Yasunari Kawabata(scenario supervisor)
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      This film revived the shomingeki sub-genre in which lower middle class and struggling families are depicted.
    • Quotes

      Michiyo Okamoto: [voiceover] My husband is sitting at the table. I bring a pot of miso soup from the kitchen. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow, for 365 days a year, morning and night, come and go unvaryingly. With a life restricted to the kitchen and the family room, must every woman grow old and die feeling empty?

    • Connections
      Referenced in Century of Cinema: Nihon eiga no hyaku nen (1995)

    User reviews12

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    8/10
    Two People Not Talking
    Being a housewife in a working-class mews in Osaka has grown wearying for Setsuko Hara. Life with Ken Uehara is a dull routine of breakfast with him reading the newspaper, her scrubbing the house, and him coming home late to announce he's hungry. It all boils over when his flibbertigibbet niece, Yukiko Shimazaki, shows up. She has run away from home, rather than marry the rich man her parents have chosen. Uehara buys tickets to take them all on a Sunday outing. Setsuko stays home to scrub the tatami mats. She wants to run away to Tokyo and her mother. She decides not to. She's going to leave that night. Maybe she'll leave in the morning.

    Mikio Naruse was one of the two principle directors of Shomin-Gekim dramas of the the working poor in Japan; the other was the revered Ozu, for whom Miss Hara often worked -- when Ozu died, she retired. Naruse's film looks far more like a conventional film than Ozu's -- moving shots, camera placement above the floor, and so forth -- but with this movie he tackles a story; Ozu may show the audience the working parts of his families -- because of their interchangeable casts, sometimes they all seem like the same family -- and how they work. His movies are group portraits. Naruse tackles the question of why they should work, why they should put up with the drudgery, and makes that voyage of self-discovery his film's story.

    Bob
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    • Sep 8, 2018

    Details

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    • Release date
      • November 23, 1951 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • A Married Life
    • Filming locations
      • Osaka, Japan
    • Production company
      • Toho Company
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 37 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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