• © 1956 Toho Co., Ltd.

  • © 1956 Toho Co., Ltd.

  • © 1956 Toho Co., Ltd.

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).

Juliet Clark
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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