Shin Tokudaiji

A collection of crisscrossing miniature studies of love and family at a remote resort in the mountains. With delicate and surprising humor, it paints a timeless portrait of loneliness and the human need to connect.

Kinoshita's first film after the end of World War II is a wrenching, superbly wrought tale about a liberal-minded Japanese family torn apart by war and imperialist politics. Morning for the Osone Family is both palpably bitter about the nation's fresh wartime wounds and inspiringly hopeful about a democratic tomorrow.