I always feel that Yoji Yamada is an underrated Japanese director

Amara 2022-04-23 07:05:31

I always feel that Yoji Yamada is an underrated Japanese director. Compared with Ozu and Naruse, Yamada Yoji's films are more tender. I think this is just a difference in the thinking and values ​​of life. It is expressed with the help of movies, and there is no distinction between high and low. As a junior, Yamada was also influenced by his seniors. If I choose a Japanese movie to recommend, I choose to recommend Yoji Yamada's "The Qinghei of Dusk". The film was released in 2002, a relatively recent era. The characters in Yamada's films are optimistic, righteous, kind, humorous, human, and very romantic. Yamada Yoji is always like this, seeing the truth in plainness. Qingbingwei at dusk, a good man who cares for the family. It turns out that happiness is very simple, but we all care too much about chasing the standards recognized by the public.

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  • Ito: With a sick wife, two young daughters and an aged mother in his care, my father was unable to drink with his colleagues. He had to hurry home every evening at dusk. I was told the men he worked with gave him the cruel nickname of 'Twilight Seibei'.

  • Kayano Iguchi: Father, If I learn to do needlework someday I can make kimonos. But what good will book learning ever do me?

    Seibei Iguchi: Well, it probably won't ever be as useful as needlework. But you know, book learning gives you the power to think. However the world might change, if you have the power to think you'll always survive somehow. That's true for boys and for girls. All right?

    Kayano Iguchi: Yes.