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Woman in the Dunes
1964
Kuroneko
1968
Onibaba
1964
Children of Hiroshima
1952
The Life of Oharu
1952
Pitfall
1962
Fires on the Plain
1959
The Crucified Lovers
1954
The Face of Another
1966
The Ballad of Narayama
1958
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
1960
Demons
1971
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the naked island proves that the director, kaneto shindo, can use the same beauty and grace that creates the haunting and chilling experiences of his horror films to create an effective and emotionally affecting drama about life on a rural island. of course, i am not familiar with his filmography outside of kuroneko and onibaba so this could be something that was clear to everyone else, but it was still quite a discovery for me. the poetic techniques of those other films are very clearly still utilized in this film but for a very different effect. although i don't think that it is as read
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The Naked Island: The Silence of the Sea
By Haden Guest
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MAY 17, 2016
Naked Island essay
With its novel melding of techniques from silent cinema and contemporary documentary, Kaneto Shindos masterful The Naked Island seems suspended between two worlds, its portrait of twentieth-century peasant life offered as both a timeless fable about human endurance and a sharp critique of Japans sudden leap into the capitalist new world order. Indeed, the 1960 film marked a crucial transitional moment in the history of postwar Japanese cinema, between the late flowering of studio read
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