Street Without End
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Director: Mikio Naruse
1934 / 89min / 35mm
Working as a waitress in Tokyo’s Ginza district, Sugiko (Shinobu Setsuko) envisages a bright future ahead for herself with a marriage proposal on the table from beau Harada (Yuki Ichiro), and film studio talent scout Yukihiko (Ryu Chishu) tempting her with the promise of stardom. Even being clipped by a passing car at first seems like a blessing in disguise for Sugiko, for the driver, Hiroshi (Yamanouchi Hikaru), is rich, single, and soon smitten with the injured young woman—but fairy tale endings were never Naruse’s stock in trade, and our heroine soon learns that Hiroshi’s affection for her is by no means shared by her new in-laws. The first appearance in Naruse’s cinema of the auto accident as a quintessential and terrible aspect of modern urban life, preceding by decades the life-altering smash-ups of Hit and Run and Scattered Clouds.
35mm print courtesy of the National Film Archive of Japan
One screening only!
Live piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura on Sunday, December 7th
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