<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff, font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">> This has the feel of a story of the near past, only pretending to be in the present.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">This is true of one Naruse's early post-war films. I get a feeling that this could as easily have been set around 1930 as around the latter 1940s. (This is another of my top 1940s Naruse films). ;~}<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></SPAN></DIV><WBR><WBR></div></body></html>