Reminiscence (1953)

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952 novel Thousand Cranes, a quietly devastating story of a young man, orphaned during the war, who stumbles into a passionate yet tragic relationship with his late father’s mistress and her daughter.

• Release Date: 1953-01-15
• Runtime: 1h 50min
• Director: Kōzaburō Yoshimura
• Writer: Kaneto Shindō