#227 – Street of Shame, (赤線地帯), 1956, Kenji Mizoguchi
The personal tales of various sex workers who occupy a Japanese brothel.
Tag: 1956
#238: The Burmese Harp
#238 – The Burmese Harp, (ビルマの竪琴), 1956, Kon Ichikawa
In the War’s closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.
#405: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
#405 – Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1956, Don Siegel
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
#527: A Man Escaped
#527 – A Man Escaped, (Un condamné à mort s’est échappé), 1956, Robert Bresson
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.
#579: Aparajito
#579 – Aparajito, (অপরাজিত), 1956, Satyajit Ray
The Unvanquished is the second part of the Bangladesh Apu film series about a boy named Apu who gets a scholarship to study at a College in Calcutta. His mother is alone and torn between wanting him to be successful and not wanting him to leave her alone.
#739: Crazed Fruit
#739 – Crazed Fruit, (狂った果実), 1956, Kô Nakahira
Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking, in this seminal Sun Tribe film from director Kô Nakahira. Adapted from the controversial novel by Shintarô Ishihara, and critically savaged for its lurid portrayal of the postwar sexual revolution among Japan’s young and privileged, Crazed Fruit is an anarchic outcry against tradition and the older generation.
#865: Madame Freedom
#865 – Madame Freedom, (자유부인), 1956, Han Hyeong-mo
A professor’s wife, O Seon-yeong, starts working at a boutique shop. She meets Choe Yun-ju and goes to a dance party. She happens to like Sin Chun-ho, so she learns dancing from the next-door neighbor. Meanwhile, professor Jang is attracted to his student, who works as a typist. But he does not want to ruin his family while waiting for his wife to come home. In the end O realizes her mistake and comes back home with regret.
#877: Early Spring
#877 – Early Spring, (早春), 1956, Yasujirō Ozu
A young salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.
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