Qiuzi (played by the original Setsuko) is a widowed woman living with a child. Although there are relatives who help to propose a marriage, she does not seem to be tempted. She wants to raise the child and grow up. I feel very happy, although others will express sympathy, but she herself does not see resentment and desolation.
Noriko (played by Si Ziye) is the youngest daughter in the family, the unmarried daughter. There are a few people who propose marriage. The conditions are good, and there are some who like her, but she has always had a soft spot for her colleagues who went to Sapporo. Correspondence was maintained, but she never made up her mind. A few days after her father's funeral, she finally made up her mind to make a choice according to her heart, which is to go to Sapporo. Akiko expressed support for her decision.
His father, Wanbingwei (played by Nakamura Yanjiro), was like an old urchin, because he accidentally met his old lover who had been separated for 19 years, and his life was changed because of this. Although the daughter Fumiko spoke to her father sneeringly after knowing that her father often went to see his lover Sasaki, the father did not get angry because of it. Their daughter is twenty-one years old, and she is a fashionable girl. She is completely different from the daughters of the Kobayakawa family from the way she dresses and talks. She also has a foreign boyfriend. She didn't show any affection, she just wanted him to buy her a mink shawl, and even when he died, she expressed her regret for not letting the father buy her a mink shawl earlier. The sigh...
Even so, the father's sorrow is not directly felt in the film, but only in the dialogue between the farmer (played by Li Zhizhong) and the farmer woman at the end, and you can feel the loneliness of the father's heart in the film... The farmer
woman To the smoking chimney of the crematorium, he said: "If it's an old man, it's fine, but if it's a younger generation, it's too pitiful."
The farmer said: to die is to die, and then you can go to the world again and come to this world again.
The peasant woman said: Yes, I hope so.
In the film, the song Noriko and her colleagues sang at the farewell party is the tune of happy new year:
we are in the gaps in the city
like shining among the clouds,
tomorrow we will climb to the top of the mountain with a
violent storm and snow
, and we are not afraid to
see the mountains again.
take care
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