Nogiku no gotoki kimi nariki

19551955
1h 40m

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7.6/10

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Drama Romance

An old man, being rowed along a river, sees a field of daisies (or Wild Chrysanthemums, as they are described in the title, or starworts, as they are referred to in the subtitles), and think... Read allAn old man, being rowed along a river, sees a field of daisies (or Wild Chrysanthemums, as they are described in the title, or starworts, as they are referred to in the subtitles), and thinks back to when he was fifteen. He recalls his time with, and away from, the girl cousin he... Read allAn old man, being rowed along a river, sees a field of daisies (or Wild Chrysanthemums, as they are described in the title, or starworts, as they are referred to in the subtitles), and thinks back to when he was fifteen. He recalls his time with, and away from, the girl cousin he grew up with and would have married, except the family and other pressures got in the way... Read all

IMDb RATING

7.6/10

361

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POPULARITY

196,375

17,830

Director
- Keisuke Kinoshita
Writers
- Sachio Ito(novel)
- Keisuke Kinoshita(script)
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- 2 wins

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Takahiro Tamura in Nogiku no gotoki kimi nariki (1955)

Noriko Arita in Nogiku no gotoki kimi nariki (1955)

Haruko Sugimura in Nogiku no gotoki kimi nariki (1955)

Shinji Tanaka and Noriko Arita in Nogiku no gotoki kimi nariki (1955)

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Grandmother: Kane, you're acting awfully happy about the outcome. But you're Tamiko's mother.
Tamiko's father: What are you saying, Grandma?
Grandmother: Can't you understand how Tamiko's feeling?
Tamiko's Mother: Aren't you happy about this?
Grandmother: Of course I'm happy. Very joyous. But I want to tell you something. I turned 60 this year. When I look back on my life of 60 years, the happiest moment was when I married Grandpa who's no longer with us. That moment alone was worth being alive in this world. The rest of the events in my life pale in comparison.
Tamiko's father: Are you against Tamiko's marriage?
Grandmother: I'm not against it. All I'm asking is for all of you to be more considerate towards Tamiko.

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6/10

Sentimental recollection of adolescence

The style of this film manages to be at once naturalistic, sentimental, and at times highly dramatic. The minutiae of daily life in a village makes the settings very real indeed. Harvesting and threshing rice, picking "egg-apples" and cotton in the mountains, gossiping over dinner.

The boy and girl, whose childhood innocence but very strong friendship seamlessly turns into more adult love (though thoroughly chaste), are mercilessly taunted by nearly everyone close to them. The impression is of a relationship developing under total and minute scrutiny. This sort of thing can happen anywhere, particularly in a small village, but in a Japanese village, the atmosphere for the young couple is beyond claustrophobic, even when they are in the wide open spaces.

The tone of the story is, and is enhanced by the generally restrained performances, highly emotional, sometimes veering towards melodrama. Though I would be hard pressed to describe this story as a romance, I can well imagine some viewers being moved to tears by the unfairness and injustice of it all.

The story was rather too simple for my liking, though this could be unfair, because I am comparing it to masterworks by the same director, such as Happiness For Us Alone. Nevertheless, the story becomes powerful and effecting towards the end, and is difficult to forget.

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