Comments on: Yoru no henrin (1964)

By: Soleil

Soleil — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 16:41:25 +0000

Domo arigato. What a sad, long film. Slowness, inertia, dialogues far from captivating. No bright moments, except for a short walk on the waterside. Very overrated, I’m sorry to say.

By: David Dunn

David Dunn — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 01:34:37 +0000

There are some women who are unable to leave their selfish, exploitive, abusive boyfriends, husbands or pimps. This engaging film does not shed any light on why?

By: Martin Dowsing

Martin Dowsing — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:47:23 +0000

John’s guess is right, Miyuki Kuwano got married and retired. She’s probably still alive, but I don’t know for sure.

By: John D. Baldwin

John D. Baldwin — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 16:43:05 +0000

Miyuki Kuwano was the daughter of the star actress Michiko Kuwano, nicknamed “Mitch,” who was popular during the 1930s and appeared in films by, among others, Ozu and Hiroshi Shimizu. Right after the war, she died tragically on the set of Mizoguchi’s The Victory of Women from complications due to an ectopic pregnancy. At the time, her daughter Miyuki was about 2 years old. After becoming an actress, Miyuki, like her mother, appeared in films by Ozu (Equinox Flower, Late Autumn), but was much more strongly associated with the Japanese New Wave, particularly Oshima (Cruel Story of Youth). Director Nakamura, though part of Kurosawa’s generation, not Oshima’s, allegedly made this film as a response to the innovations of the New Wave. Miyuki made her final movies in 1967. I don’t know why she stopped working, but she may well have retired to get married, as many young actresses at the time did. As far as anybody knows, she’s still alive today at 80 years old.

By: Wolfgang Jahn

Wolfgang Jahn — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 13:12:27 +0000

What an incredible cute beauty Miyuki Kuwano was! I ‘ve seen her in an Ozu-movie and will search for more of her work.

What happens to her? Does anyone know? She could still be alive? Born in 1942 she worked in movies from the tender age of 13 (1955) to 1967, but at 25 she seems to have quit. Why? What happened?

This one is great, 9/10!

By: Michael Søby

Michael Søby — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 01:25:44 +0000

PLEASE give us more films from this director – in particular his two Oscar-nominated masterpieces:

“Chieko-Sho” and “Koto” plus the sublim “Sekishun”

No Japanese director is more deserving of being rediscovered than Naboru Nakamura – they should do a box with these three films – including international subtitles. It is a disgrace than they are still not available for international audiences.