Tuesday, 16 June 2015

Life after love for money

Late Chrysanthemums (1954)

Directed by Mikio Naruse this film stars Haruko Sugimura, Chikako Hosokawa and Yuuko Mochizuki. Middle aged women that used to be geisha struggle with their different situations in life.

Returning to one of this favourite subjects I am not sure that Naruse has as much to say here as some of his other films on sex work but it is still a pretty interesting story. Life after being a sex worker gets little attention so in that regard this is some what unusual. At times it felt like the film dragged a little and it was more a study of contrasts than a deep exploration of it's subject matter but it was still not a bad watch.


3/5

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