Spring Awakens (was: Hideko the Bus Conductor)

[Maria Jose Gonzalez]

Just months before that same year,another "bus" film by Hiroshi Shimizu,"Akatsuki no Gassho" had been released and Naruse was of course very much aware of the comparisons that would arise.
This film deals with yet another conductress and again contains no traces of a country at war (apparently it was filmed in Akita Prefecture which suggests films were moving away from the capital area to avoid it).
Maria-Jose

--- On Tue, 1/3/11, Michael Kerpan <mekerpan at verizon.net> wrote:

From: Michael Kerpan <mekerpan at verizon.net>
Subject: Spring Awakens (was: Hideko the Bus Conductor)
To: "KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu" <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Tuesday, 1 March, 2011, 1:12 AM

> This has the feel of a story of the near past, only pretending to be in the present.
 
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). ;~}

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