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Noriko Smiling

'Late Spring, directed and co-written by Yasujiro Ozu, was released in 1949, which makes it an old film, or a film that has been new for a long time...' So begins this remarkable essay in narrative reconstruction, which elicits a world of meanings from the reticences of one classic Japanese movie, and reserves to the very end a resolution of its mystery. Adam Mars-Jones gives a virtuoso comeback performance as that lost figure from the earl days of cinema: the film explainer. There has never been a film book like this one.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 238
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781907903458
  • Genres
  • film, japan
  • Release date
  • 2011