1950s, 3/4, Drama, Masaki Kobayashi, Review

Black River

#11 in my ranking of Masaki Kobayashi's films. This is The Lower Depths but angry. This feels like the closest Kobayashi ever came to making a Kurosawa movie, and it's still distinctly his own. It's a look at people living in the shadow of an American military base on the eve of the American military's… Continue reading Black River

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