Comments on: Koto (1963)

By: Soleil

Soleil — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:49:37 +0000

Thank you very much. A beautiful work, and the sparse Toru Takemitsu soundtrack.

By: margot

margot — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 23:38:17 +0000

In reply to Wolfgang Jahn. did you find it ? i'm also looking for this movie. Nowhere to be found

By: Brian Camp

Brian Camp — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 16:51:29 +0000

I’ve seen hundreds of Japanese films and dozens by Ozu and Naruse and I found this film to be more beautiful, poetic and sensitively handled than any I’ve ever experienced before. I only discovered this film because I was researching the Foreign Language Film category and discovered three Japanese films nominated in the 1960s that, surprisingly, I’d never heard of before. The others are IMMORTAL LOVE (1961), directed by Kinoshita, and PORTRAIT OF CHIEKO (1967), directed, like this one, by Noboru Nakamura. In all my decades of studying Japanese film, I’d never heard of Nakamura before and I just found only brief references to him in two of Donald Richie’s seminal books on Japanese film, and no mention of this film or the other two Oscar nominees I cited. Nakamura deserves to be better known.

By: Wolfgang Jahn

Wolfgang Jahn — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 19:12:42 +0000

I wonder, is there any chance to see KII RIVER (1966) by Noboru Nakamura? Not necessarily on this site, although I am sure it would be a GREAT addition to rarefilm.torrentbay.st. If anyone knows where I can watch it, please comment here.

By: John D. Baldwin

John D. Baldwin — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 14:40:25 +0000

Very delicate, very subtle, very Japanese. A film about the reunion of separated sisters becomes a film about identity itself. There are no bad guys here (not even the shady general manager of the firm, who keeps two sets of books). There are only the suffering souls of two nice, well-meaning young ladies whose reunion gives them as much sorrow as joy. Iwashita is stunning: this is her youthful peak.

By: Eric L

Eric L — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 17:48:37 +0000

Thank you. Love Japanese films from that era. I have never seen this one. Will watch it tonight.

By: Jon W.

Jon W. — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 23:03:38 +0000

In reply to Paseante. I have it, this week I have a ton of movies to upload but will try to put it up next week :)

By: Dennis Gierich

Dennis Gierich — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 11:40:07 +0000

Based on the great novel by Nobel Prize laureate Yasunari Kawabata!