Masaki Kobayashi's Hymn To A Tired Man, also known as Youth of Japan, is a fairly difficult film to see, which is one reason its December 5 December 4 screening at N.Y.C.'s Film Forum is a noteworthy event. It's an unusual film; its latter-cited title and the fact that it was made in 1968 might suggest to some that it's a thematic cousin to the American The Graduate. In one sense, it is; among its several plot threads there's one involving a dissatisfied student involved in a romance that causes some embarrassing consternation to the two families involved. But mostly the film is what its former-cited title suggests; a tragi-comedy about a meek representative of what could be seen as Japan's "greatest generation:" a mild-mannered partially deaf businessman alienated from the fast pace of "modern life" and haunted by newly resurrected ghosts of the past.
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- 12/5/2010
- MUBI
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