An autocratic paterfamilias fears the Bomb so badly he wants to re-locate his extended family to Brazil. They think he's mad and fight his plans in family court.
This film dealt directly with the psychological and emotional effects of Hiroshima on the Japanese population. Who is crazy...the person who fears the Bomb or the society that produces it?
This featured K's usual stable of players...less camera trickery than his other films...and more over-acting in several scenes. In particular TM chewed the scenery a bit too much for my taste. But K deserves credit for dealing so openly with a topic that must have been radioactive (sorry) in Japanese society at that time.
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