Genre: Family, Drama
Starring: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tadanobu Asano, Mitsugoro Bando
Release year: 2008
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English
SYNOPSIS:
Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her two daughters with the support of Shigeru’s sister Hisako and Shigeru’s ex-student Yamazaki, but her husband does not return. WWII breaks out and casts dark shadows on the entire country, but Kayo still tries to keep her cheerful determination, and sustain the family with her love. This is an emotional drama of a mother and an eternal message for peace.
RATING: 8/10
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REVIEW:
" Two hours into the film (don’t worry, Yamada provides the viewer with sufficient moments of gravity and levity to tide you along), he slaps you with what I can only describe as “the sting”. All that you have assumed to be what the story was about—an innocent man wrenched from his faithful wife and daughters – now suddenly points to one of the family helpers. Someone you have hitherto taken for granted is now thrown into an unexpected twist of fate.
At this point, something curious happened in the theatre I was in. Everyone started sobbing with little or no inhibition.
“My word!” I muttered under my breath. It struck me then that “Kabei”, in the final analysis, was more than a film about a family torn apart by an empire on the verge of war. It was, in fact, a cunning examination of one common human foible: How little we cared about the secret feelings of people who are closest to us.
Now, the most common criticism made about the film was that it was technically solid, but lacked innovation. That’s what happens when reviewers put on their proverbial thinking cap, I guess. With Kabei, I believe Yoji Yamada knew exactly what trick he was going to employ to touch on one unique aspect of humanity. A wicked old trick he so seamlessly applied in the Tora-san series, and later, in Tasogare Sebei.
After lulling the audience into a sort of narrative comfort zone, he throws us into a realm of emotions rarely explored in cinema.
This, to me, is the most effective cinematic tool of all. One which avoids detection, but affects you deeply. And proof of its effectiveness was a thousand wet pieces of Kleenex, thrown into a litterbin just outside of that thousand-seater cinema hall.
Now if only some reviewers would resist being so caught up with being smart that they forget what cinema is really about. Human emotions. Pure and simple. "
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