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Sunday, Nov 30, 2025
2 PM (90 mins)
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Sudden Rain
(Shuu)
featuring
Shuji Sano, Setsuko Hara, Keiju Kobayashi, Kyoko Kagawa,
Sudden Rain is a comic-melancholic exercise in repetition and counterpoint, with precisely calibrated domestic irritations set to delicate piano. Setsuko Hara and Shuji Sano are a husband and wife well rehearsed in daily routine—he with his newspaper, she at her knitting, carefully framed in separate rooms. She wants to go out; he’d rather stay home and “enjoy family life,” but there’s little enjoyment to be had in a household plagued by money worries, distracting neighbors, and a newlywed niece with troubles of her own. The surface tension could hold indefinitely—or a slight shift in perspective could change everything. “A masterpiece in miniature” (IFC News).
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Yoko Mizuki
Cinematographer
- Masao Tamai
Language
- Japanese
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- B&W
- 35mm
- 90 mins
Source
- The Japan Foundation
Permission
- Toho
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