An atmospheric forties melodrama made and set in postwar Japan, but which timelessly recalls subjects as far flung both historically and geographically as Ray's 'The Music Room' and Visconti's 'The Leopard'.
The daughters of the nouveau pauvre flock in search of eligible bachelors in a fashion Jane Austin would have recognised and seen as recently as P.L.Travers having to submit to the clammy embrace of Walt Disney in 'Saving Mr Banks' to keep her home.
The daughters of the nouveau pauvre flock in search of eligible bachelors in a fashion Jane Austin would have recognised and seen as recently as P.L.Travers having to submit to the clammy embrace of Walt Disney in 'Saving Mr Banks' to keep her home.