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17 mag 2022 · So it only makes sense that a satirist like Juzo Itami, son of a well-known prewar director of comical samurai films, would have scandalous fun with this most solemn of rites in a rite-bound society. And that he would use a funeral as a way to get at the treacherous gap that regularly separates public emotion from real feeling.
Directed by Juzo Itami • 1984 • Japan When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home.
16 gen 2024 · The Funeral is an assured start to an all-too-short directorial career, and the Criterion release is replete with some very nice extras including a selection of adverts Itami directed for Ichiroku Tarts (one of the main financial backers of The Funeral). If you enjoyed Tampopo (Juzo Itami, 1985), or like Japanese cinema or human drama in ...
Directed by Juzo Itami. Maverick director Juzo Itami didn’t direct his first feature—the alternately bawdy and bittersweet satire THE FUNERAL—until the age of fifty, but it announced the arrival of a fully formed sensibility unafraid of skewering the most sensitive aspects of Japanese society. Though his follow-up, the rapturous “ramen ...
Jûzô Itami. Japan, 1984. Comedy. 124. ... The remainder of the film is episodic, moving from one incident to another over the course of the three-day funeral, ...
Directed by Juzo Itami • 1984 • Japan. Starring Nobuko Miyamoto, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Chishu Ryu. It’s death, Japanese style, in the rollicking and wistful first feature from maverick writer-director Juzo Itami. In the wake of her father’s sudden passing, a successful actor (Itami’s wife and frequent collaborator, Nobuko Miyamoto) and ...
17 mag 2022 · It’s death, Japanese style, in the rollicking and wistful first feature from maverick writer-director Juzo Itami. In the wake of her father’s sudden passing, a successful actor (Itami’s wife and frequent collaborator, Nobuko Miyamoto) and her lascivious husband (Tsutomu Yamazaki) leave Tokyo and return to her family home to oversee a traditional funeral.
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