Naruse's Summer Clouds / Iwashigumo

[kerpan at attglobal.net]

As I understand this -- under the new land laws, the senior member of the 
family no longer had the right to control land belonging to junior members
of 
the family.  Chikage Awashima owns part of the land (perhaps on behalf of
her 
son), which she inherited from her late husband.  Her eldest brother in law 
(Ganjiro Nakamura)  has only sold his own land (not sure he sold all of it 
though).

Ironically, she (the city girl who has yearned to return there) is more 
committed (more tied) to the land than the country folk themselves.

MEK

On Monday 15 January 2007 08:46, Alexander Jacoby wrote:

> Dear All,
>
>   Wonder if anyone has seen Summer Clouds / Iwashigumo recently and can
> tell me how they interpret the splendid final scene?

***

> A few scenes after this, all the rest of the family go to the station,
> but not the heroine, who is ploughing the fields. My question is - is she
> ploughing the land that's already been sold? In which case it would truly
> be fruitless. Or is this the "moitie" of land that might hypothetically
> have been retained? In which case it might not.
>
>   Any advice gratefully received!


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