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Yearning

Yearning

1964, Movie, 1h 38min

One of Mikio Naruse’s supreme achievements, this transcendent melodrama weaves a heartrending story of an extended family tragedy growing out of the Second World War. The great Hideko Takamine stars as a young widow attempting to carry on after her husband was killed in the war and her family grocery all but wiped out in a bombing raid. She keeps the business going, only to find herself dealing with the greedy interference of her sisters-in-law and the unwanted attention of her brother-in-law (Yuzo Kayama), who all the while pines for her. It all builds to a shattering, train-set emotional climax, subtly yet powerfully enacted by the director’s muse Takamine.

Country: Japan

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Haruo Nakajima,

Hideko Takamine,

Chieko Nakakita

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You can stream Yearning on: The Criterion Channel

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Yearning include Romeo and Juliet, A Man and a Woman, Elvira Madigan, Bahu Begum, Jules and Jim, The Apartment.

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Yearning was released in theaters on October 23, 1964.

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