![]() ![]() We have never been so close as a family since then. And the idiots were throwing their weight around. Kiyoko: Of course, I hated the war, but sometimes I miss those days. Kiyoko: I thought, if we die in the bunker, we would all be together like this. Kiyoko, smiling but contemplative, brings up memories of their hard life in a bomb shelter during the final stages of the Pacific War: At one point, Hirayama’s family visits a park and spends a relaxing time together. ![]() His wife Kiyoko (Tanaka Kinuyo) first gently and then forcefully attempts to change her husband’s mind. Hirayama (portrayed by Saburi Shin), a middle-aged Tokyo businessman, is having a conflict with his young daughter Setsuko (Arima Ineko), who has defied his will by deciding to marry a young man of her choice. Reading through Hikari Hori’s Promiscuous Media and Jennifer Coates’s Making Icons, I was reminded of a scene in Ozu Yasujirō’s beautiful and elegiac film Equinox Flower ( Higan-bana, 1958). Fighting Mothers, Suffering Mothers: Wartime Mixed Media and Postwar Female Cinematic Icons ![]()
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