A 1962 Japanese drama so obscure even Letterboxd hasn't heard of it — let's get weird.
Direction
Kawashima's final film before his death — pure, unfiltered vision.
Cinematography
Mount Hakone as silent witness to human collapse.
Director
Yūzō Kawashima
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kawashima died of illness shortly after completing this, making the mother's terminal condition uncomfortably autobiographical.
Mount Hakone's volcanic landscape symbolized instability in postwar Japanese cinema — here, ironically, it's the only constant.
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