Older Brother, Younger Sister

Year: 1953

Actors: Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, Yoshiko Kuga, Yūji Hori, Eiji Funakoshi, Reizaburo Yamamoto, ...

Duration: 86 min

In Older Brother, Younger Sister, director Mikio Naruse's adaptation of an oft-filmed popular novel by Saisei Murô, the eldest daughter (Machiko Kyô) of a rural family comes home pregnant, testing some already tenuous family bonds. Naruse shows his considerable skill at portraying household dynamics, filming Kyô in relaxed and/or reclining positions (indicative of her...

Genre: Action   Drama