Older Brother, Younger Sister 1953

Title: Older Brother, Younger Sister
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Languages: Japanese
Genres: Drama,
Runtime: 1:26:00 Hour
Cast: Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Yoshiko Kuga
Directors: Mikio Naruse
Rating: 7.3 (480 Votes)
Year: 1953
Summary: In Older Brother, Younger Sister, director Mikio Naruse's adaptation of an oft-filmed popular novel by Saisei Murô, the eldest daughter (Machiko Kyô) of a rural family comes home pregnant, testing some already tenuous family bonds. Naruse shows his considerable skill at portraying household dynamics, filming Kyô in relaxed and/or reclining positions (indicative of her character's exhaustively maintained independence) that are then intruded upon by her ill-tempered older brother (Masayuki Mori), whose initially comic, brute-force presence grows increasingly menacing and treacherous as the film progresses.