The Moon Has Risen
For her second film, Kinuyo Tanaka directed a script by legendary filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu, one of her mentors. Though informed by Ozu’s singular take on familial relationships, The Moon Has Risen also possesses Tanaka’s lively and elegant comic sensibility in its portrait of a widower (Chishu Ryu) who lives with his three daughters (Hisako Yamane, Yoko Sugi, and Mie Kitahara). Kitahara shines as the spirited youngest sister, whose matchmaking schemes force the family to confront—with amusing bewilderment—Japanese society’s rapidly evolving mores.
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Cast
- Chishu Ryu
- Mokichi Asai
- Shuji Sano
- Takasu
- Hisako Yamane
- Chizuru
- Yoko Sugi
- Ayako
- Mie Kitahara
- Setsuko
- Ko Mishima
- Amamiya
- Shoji Yasui
- Shoji
- Kinuyo Tanaka
- Yoneya
- Junji Masuda
- Tanaka Yutaka
- Miki Odagiri
- Fumiya
Credits
- Director
- Kinuyo Tanaka
- Screenplay
- Yasujiro Ozu
- Screenplay
- Ryosuke Saito
- Director of photography
- Shigeyoshi Mine
- Editor
- Mitsuo Kondo
- Composer
- Takanobu Saito
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