( 彼岸花 Higanbana ) by Yasujiro Ozu - Japan 1958 - Comedy - 118min.
Ozu's first color film, adapted from a novel by Ton Satomi, deals with the change of Japanese family in the '50s.
Wataru Hirayama (Shin Saburi), a businessman from the enviable position of working, he wants to marry his daughter more, now of marriageable age, which refuses the system of arranged marriage by their parents, as was common practice in old Japan. Hirayama One day he met the young clerk Taniguchi, in love with the daughter (and reciprocated), requesting the hand. The father is very hard to accept the marriage for love, without financial guarantees special and certainly not decided by him. We will create a conflict between father and daughter who, thanks to the role of mediator Hirayama's wife, Kiyoko (Kinuyo Tanaka), will result in a happy ending.
Despite the novelty of color, is a film in Ozu-style, is the director of his favorite themes (the evolution of the institution Japanese family and relationships among its members) with his usual estate car, his calm and relaxed pace, the hatching of diverse psychologies of the characters, music and traditional elegance of the frame. Stylistically it's a film that does not appear to be in step with the times, since it does not offer anything innovative. Ozu seems to make a single, very long film, while keeping the same style, always focusing on the same subject but from time to time by adopting different perspectives. For this reason also Equinox Flower of vision is a pleasant and at times fascinating, even for its historical and social significance.
Rating: 3 / 5
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