![]() Kaji’s reaction to this deceit affects Sensei’s life forever, and blights those who try to get close to him. When Kaji, to that point a sullen ascetic prone to disparaging the frivolity of others, confesses to Sensei his love for Shizu, his “friend” quickly and surreptitiously betroths himself to her. ![]() One of the story’s cruel ironies is that the “life” he looks at, but cannot touch or truly interact with – in other words, his beautiful, loving, witty wife – is the reason for the betrayal that precipitated his emotional paralysis in the first place.ġ5 years previously, he and his student friend Kaji (Tatsuya Mihashi) lodged with Shizu and her mother (Akiko Tamura). He is a man so paralysed by guilt and self-loathing he can only look on at life. Sensei, cramped between two shutters, stands in the darkness looking into this light. ![]() Shizu (Michiyo Aratama) has opened Kon Ichikawa’s Kokoro (1955) in a luminous, enigmatic close-up that becomes a dynamic camera movement arcing from her face to reveal her position in the brightly lit room. ![]() Sensei (Masayuki Mori) is first seen standing in a doorway, looking down at his wife as she sits embroidering (1). ![]()
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