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Suzaku
Suzaku

Suzaku (1997)

72% User Rating
1h 35min
Drama

Depicts the life of a family in a remote Japanese timber village. Family head Tahara Kozo lives with his mother Sachiko, wife Yasuyo, nephew Eisuke and young daughter Michiru. Economic recession and failed development plans cause tragedy in the family.

Naomi KawaseDirector

Cast

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Jun Kunimura

Jun Kunimura

Kozo Tahara

Machiko Ono

Machiko Ono

Michiru Tahara

Sayaka Yamaguchi

Sayaka Yamaguchi

Young Michiru

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Sachiko Izumi

Sachiko

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Kotaro Shibata

Eisuke

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Yasuyo Kamimura

Yasuyo

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Kazufumi Mukohira

Young Eisuke

Reviews (1)

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B
badelf
Rating 80%

December 27, 2021

I interpret this film as a slow, meditative thesis on the wabi-sabi of generational change. Like the fleeting cherry blossoms, the Japanese have reverence and respect for impermanence and imperfection. In the middle of the film, we heard an older man ask "How will our young find someone to marry (if the railroad is not built)?" Everyone is aware of the traditional village dissolving, yet only Kozo is unable to live with this. He disappears. Yasuyo moves away taking Machiko with her. Eisuke, who was, and still is, afraid of the ghosts in the tunnel (the past?) decides to remain in the village, perhaps only because the tradition of living with family still resides in him. We in the Western world do not seem to appreciate the trajectory of change in our own culture. Even viewed through the lens of our contemporary ADD, this film is good.

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映画「萌の朱雀」劇場予告

映画「萌の朱雀」劇場予告

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