Aoi sanmyaku

19491949
1h 32m

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

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Drama Romance

When a post-war high school girl is seen with an older boy many find the nontraditional notion unacceptable and try to trick the girl and also assail her right to continue the relationship. ... Read allWhen a post-war high school girl is seen with an older boy many find the nontraditional notion unacceptable and try to trick the girl and also assail her right to continue the relationship. Cue her teacher who not only supports the girl, but encourages her pupils to do as they wi... Read allWhen a post-war high school girl is seen with an older boy many find the nontraditional notion unacceptable and try to trick the girl and also assail her right to continue the relationship. Cue her teacher who not only supports the girl, but encourages her pupils to do as they wish and ignore what society indoctrinates. Not everyone agrees with the teacher and her mod... Read all

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

154

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POPULARITY

191,537

5,386

Director
- Tadashi Imai
Writers
- Toshirô Ide(screenplay)
- Tadashi Imai(screenplay)
- Yôjirô Ishizaka(novel)
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Awards
- 3 wins

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Ryô Ikebe, Ichirô Ryûzaki, and Yôko Sugi in Aoi sanmyaku (1949)

Setsuko Hara and Yôko Sugi in Aoi sanmyaku (1949)

Setsuko Hara, Yôko Sugi, and Setsuko Wakayama in Aoi sanmyaku (1949)

Setsuko Hara, Ryô Ikebe, Hajime Izu, Ichirô Ryûzaki, Yôko Sugi, and Setsuko Wakayama in Aoi sanmyaku (1949)

Setsuko Hara, Ichirô Ryûzaki, and Setsuko Wakayama in Aoi sanmyaku (1949)

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Connections
Followed by Zoku aoi sanmyaku (1949)

Soundtracks
Valse allemande Op. 9 No.16 from Carnaval Scénes mignonnes sur quatre notes
Composed by Robert Schumann
Played by music teacher

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Review

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7/10

Dated but not uninteresting

In this 1949 film, Setsuko Hara is Miss Shimazaki, a modern, liberated, proto feminist teacher who assures her pupils in an all girl high school in a small town in Japan that is OK for girls to be dating boys and not something immoral, as traditional cultural mores before the war would indicate. Not everybody in the conservative community will like her message, though.

A bit melodramatic, dated and didactic (it openly condemns "feudalism" of traditional Japanese society and encourages individualism), but fascinating. This was considered one of the best Japanese films of 1949, along with Late Spring (which has aged much better). That same year there was a sequel of this film, called New Blue Mountains and with the same director and cast.

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