A Hen in the Wind would be Yasujiro Ozu’s attempt to reflect the struggling domestic conditions within and shortly after the Second World War, a country in crisis as soldiers defeated and return home to their normal lives after four to six years of service. medical bills after their son's sudden illness.This widely acclaimed film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a stunning, senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in present-day Belarus, teenage Flyora (Aleksei Kravchenko, in one of the screen’s most searing depictions of anguish since Renée Falconetti’s Joan of Arc) eagerly joins the Soviet resistance.With her senses-ravishing take on Herman Melville’s Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with Don’t miss the amazing selection of Janus films and merchandise at The Criterion Collection: As Ozu himself acknowledged, A Hen in the Wind is a flawed film, but that does not mean that it is one that should be dismissed as a failure. The characterisation may not be as subtle as we would come to expect of Ozu in his later films, but there are some exquisite moments of truth and poignancy, such as the delicately handled scenes in which the indignant husband visits a brothel and … Comparatively (and by an Ozu measure), Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) and A Hen in the Wind (1948)—his first two postwar works—are scabrous portrayals of a corrupt, demilitarized, firebombed landscape that swallows the vulnerable. 4.3 out of 5 stars 44 ratings. A Hen in the Wind Directed by Yasujiro Ozu • 1948 • Japan When a soldier returns home at the end of World War II, he refuses to forgive his wife for prostituting herself one night in order to pay off medical bills after their son's sudden illness. When a soldier returns home at the end of World War II, he refuses to forgive his wife for prostituting herself one night in order to pay off medical bills after their son's sudden illness.When a soldier returns home at the end of World War II, he refuses to forgive his wife for prostituting herself one night in order to pay off medical bills after their son's sudden illness.
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It was as if … A Hen in the Wind Directed byYasujirō Ozu Written byYasujirō Ozu Ryosuke Saito StarringKinuyo Tanaka Shūji Sano CinematographyYuuharu Atsuta Edited byYoshiyasu Hamamura Release date 17 September 1948 Running time 84 minutes CountryJapan LanguageJapanese A Hen in the Wind is a 1948 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu, starring Kinuyo Tanaka and Shūji Sano.
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An Autumn Afternoon / A Hen in the Wind [Blu-ray] Yasujiro Ozu (Director) Rated: NR. Janus Films is proud to present a touring retrospective spanning Abbas Kiarostami’s nearly five-decade career. When a soldier returns home at the end of World War II, he refuses to forgive his wife for prostituting herself one night in order to pay off W hen its director, Douglas Sirk, said Written on the Wind was “a film about failure,” he hardly did justice to the way pent-up, unfulfilled sexuality spills onto the screen and into the visual excess that has come to be considered his cinematic signature.