Iwai’s film is not one of the greatest Japanese romance narratives, but one of the greatest films of becoming able to love again.
Tag: Sigmund Freud
There Was A Father (1942) review
A quintessential Ozu narrative that, despite its age, still succeeds in engaging the spectator.
In Her Room (2022) review
For those who succeed in looking past the phallus during Ito’s narrative will find a renewed respect of the complexity of the feminine position.
I Was Born, But … (1932) review
What allows Ozu’s exploration of parental failure to retain its power to charm and engage is the very fact that every child needs to go through such phase.