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The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya, Dir. Kazuo Kuroki, 2006. © 2006 Bandai Visual / Ad-gear / TV Asahi / Waco / Pal Entertainments Production

The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya (Kamiya Etsuko no seishun)

5 Feb 2013

Etsuko Kamiya (Tomoyo Harada) is a country girl expecting to marry in the coming years. Despite her sibling’s efforts to find her a suitor in army engineer Nagayo (Masatoshi Nagase), Etsuko’s true love is left for Nagoya’s friend Akashi (Shunsuke Matsuoka), a young military man who has been conscripted to be a kamikaze pilot.

A tragic yet quaint love story set in Kagoshima as the Second World War drew to a close, this film, based on a stage play by Masataka Matsuda, is Kazuo Kuroki’s final work before his death in 2006 and like many of Kuroki’s works, concerns the trauma and unalterable influence of the Second World War of those who lived through it.

Dir. Kazuo Kuroki, 2006, 111mins, Colour, English Subtitles

Cast: Tomoyo Harada, Masatoshi Nagase, Shunsuke Matsuoka, Manami Honjo, Kaoru Kobayashi

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