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Eclipse 1933: 夜ごとの夢

Why haven’t those devices (for holding chilled water bags on foreheads) taken off all over the world?

Anyway, I’m having a hard time getting into this movie. There’s scens that are really fun (especially involving those sailors), but the main plot (about an out-of-work father and a geisha mother) just isn’t all that interesting. The cinematography is often quite accomplished, but there’s also a lot of scenes that are really indifferently filmed.

In short, it just seems like a film that’s been dashed off quickly (and Naruse did six films per year at this point).

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/shock-1.mp4

I’m being a bit too critical here — this film has many good qualities, really. But this is what I feel like right now:

Every-Night Dreams. Mikio Naruse. 1933.

This blog post is part of the Eclipse series.

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