Lightning Bolt

...Although he was not as strict as his contemporary Ozu Yasujiro, he made extensive use of fixed frames and his sense of space, which drew out a restrained lyricism from the people standing on the corridors and verandas of Japanese architecture, won him worldwide acclaim. The vividness of his female figure (Chiba Sachiko) in "My Wife, Like a Rose" (1935) was inherited by Yamada Isuzu in "Tsuruhachi Kakujiro" (1938) and Hara Setsuko in "Meal" (1951), and made his pairing with Takamine Hideko, which began with "Lightning" (1952), a definitive work. "Floating Clouds" (1955), based on an original story by Hayashi Fumiko...

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…同期の小津安二郎ほどの厳密さはないが，固定画面を多用し，日本建築の廊下や縁側にたたずむ人物たちから抑制の利いた抒情性を引き出したその空間感覚によって世界的に評価されるに至る。《妻よ薔薇のやうに》(1935)での女性像(千葉早智子)の鮮やかさは，《鶴八鶴次郎》(1938)の山田五十鈴，《めし》(1951)の原節子などにうけつがれ，《稲妻》(1952)に始まる高峰秀子とのコンビを決定的なものにする。林芙美子原作の《浮雲》(1955。…

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