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Her Brother is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Kon Ichikawa with Keiko Kishi

Her Brother (1960)

Otōto

Her Brother
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Length 1h38
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OriginJapon
Genres Drama
Rating68% 3.437843.437843.437843.437843.43784

Her Brother (Japanese: Otôto) is a 1960 Japanese drama film directed by Kon Ichikawa. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, where it won a prize for Special Distinction.

In order to achieve a desaturated look for the film, Ichikawa and cameraman Kazuo Miyagawa devised the cinematographic technique known as bleach bypass. Ichikawa had been inspired by the photography for John Huston's 1956 adaptation of Moby-Dick.

In 2010 the director Yoji Yamada released his own version of the same story under the same name, Otōto, which was dedicated to Kon Ichikawa.

Synopsis

Hekiro et Gen sont frère et sœur, ils s'entendent bien malgré un foyer peu chaleureux. Le père, un écrivain qui connait un certain succès, passe ses journées enfermé dans son bureau à travailler ses manuscrits. La belle-mère, une bigote chrétienne, est atteinte d'une forme sévère de rhumatismes qui la fait souffrir du pied et de la main gauche. Gen est une jeune fille au fort tempérament et responsable, elle supplée sa belle-mère handicapée dans les tâches quotidiennes et s'occupe avec affection de son frère Hekiro. Ce dernier, ne trouve pas sa place dans ce foyer et fait les 400 coups, entre bagarres au lycée, vol, dettes qu'il contracte dans une salle de billard ou chez un loueur de hors-bord. Cependant, malgré la confiance entre frère et sœur, certains problèmes surgissent. Quand Hekiro est atteint d'une tuberculose incurable, il s'attriste de voir sa sœur envisager de se marier. Le jour de sa mort, elle tâche de supporter courageusement le chagrin et la fatigue.

Actors

Keiko Kishi

(Gen)Kinuyo Tanaka

(Mother)Hiroshi Kawaguchi

(Hekiro)Masayuki Mori

(Father)Kyōko Kishida

(Mrs. Tanuma)
And :
Jun Hamamura
Kyōko Enami
Jūzō Itami
Kazuo Mori
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