Japan K. Mizoguchi
Lean, spare melodrama from 1936 which focuses on the plight of women in an absurdly patriarchal society...Japan pre-war.
The protagonist is forced by circumstances (family finances) to do things she found abhorrent and we watch her suffer humiliation, heartbreak and shame as a result. The unfairness of this woman's fate was painful enough to jolt even the most hard-headed msp.
Mizoguchi made films with these themes from the 20's to the 50's. As the decades passed he added color and exotic locations but none I've seen surpassed the short, sharp gut punch presented here.
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