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Ornamental Hairpin

Original title: Kanzashi
  • 1941
  • 1h 10m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
739
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Ornamental Hairpin (1941)
ComedyDrama

At a rural spa, a soldier accidentally cuts his foot on a hairpin. Soon enough he tracks down its lovely owner and finds himself smitten.At a rural spa, a soldier accidentally cuts his foot on a hairpin. Soon enough he tracks down its lovely owner and finds himself smitten.At a rural spa, a soldier accidentally cuts his foot on a hairpin. Soon enough he tracks down its lovely owner and finds himself smitten.

  • Director
    • Hiroshi Shimizu
  • Writers
    • Masuji Ibuse
    • Yoshitomo Nagase
  • Stars
    • Kinuyo Tanaka
    • Hiroko Kawasaki
    • Tatsuo Saitô
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.2/10
    739
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Hiroshi Shimizu
    • Writers
      • Masuji Ibuse
      • Yoshitomo Nagase
    • Stars
      • Kinuyo Tanaka
      • Hiroko Kawasaki
      • Tatsuo Saitô
    • 4User reviews
    • 18Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
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    • Awards
      • 1 win

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    Kinuyo Tanaka
    Kinuyo Tanaka
    • Emi
    Hiroko Kawasaki
    • Okiku
    Tatsuo Saitô
    Tatsuo Saitô
    • Professor Katae
    Chishû Ryû
    Chishû Ryû
    • Osamura
    Shin'ichi Himori
    Shin'ichi Himori
    • Hiroyasu
    Kanji Kawahara
    • Old Man
    Koji Matsumoto
    • Head clerk
    Hideko Mimura
    • His Wife
    Tsuneo Ohsugi
    • Tsune
    • (as Tsuneo Osugi)
    Takeshi Sakamoto
    Takeshi Sakamoto
    • Inn's owner
    Kayoko Terada
    • Maid
    Jun Yokoyama
    • Taro
    Munenobu Yui
    • Toku
    Masayoshi Ôtsuka
    • Jiro
    • Director
      • Hiroshi Shimizu
    • Writers
      • Masuji Ibuse(story)
      • Yoshitomo Nagase
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    6/10
    Kind of weak
    Well, overall, the Hiroshi Shimizu Eclipse set has been a bust for me. If you really desire to check it out, I suggest renting The Masseurs and a Woman. That's the only really good film in the set. Mr. Thank You is okay. The other two films, Japanese Girls at the Harbor and this one, are not bad, but both are kind of middling. Ornamental Hairpin feels kind of like a repeat of The Masseurs and a Woman. It also takes place at a resort spa, and has much the same kind of bittersweet romance. This one feels a lot thinner to me. Chishu Ryu (not recognizable) plays a soldier who steps on an ornamental hairpin while in the bath. The people around him are upset at his injury. He just hopes that the hairpin belongs to a beautiful woman. It does (Kinuyo Tanaka, of Ugetsu, Sansho the Bailiff and The Life of Oharu), and she comes back to the spa in person to apologize. A romance kind of sparks, but both parties are too shy to go for it. Most of the movie is comprised of the soldier exercising in order to get his foot into working condition (which makes no sense, honestly) while two children constantly shout at him in encouragement, with Tanaka shyly watching on. There are a bunch of other characters around the resort, too, but, except for maybe a cantankerous professor (Tatsuo Saito, who starred in I Was Born, But...), they don't really come off as anything besides poorly sketched caricatures. The film is also so vague at times that I was unsure of who some of the characters were (the two kids frequently seem like gamins who are just running around the spa, not belonging to anybody in particular). Chishu Ryu is so underdeveloped it's hard to really care whether he hooks up with Tanaka or not. It is often very pretty, of course, and there are a handful of very good sequences.
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    • Release date
      • August 26, 1941 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Заколка для волос
    • Production company
      • Shochiku
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 10 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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