Saturday, September 13, 2014

09.08

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Naruse Mikio, 1960)

This is Naruse?  I was tripping as soon as I saw it was in Scope.  For the first while I was thinking this must be the Japanese Mankiewicz but as it went on I realized that's way too harsh.  Still pretty bland though, I couldn't find anything here that justifies such stringent admiration; maybe I should've started with his earlier work.  The script's good though and Takamine kills it.

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