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Story of Pure Love

Jun'ai monogatari

Japan

1957

133 Min
Color
2.35:1
Japanese
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DIR Tadashi Imai

PROD Hiroshi Okawa

SCR Yôko Mizuki

DP Shunichiro Nakao

CAST Shinjiro Ebara, Hitomi Nakahara, Eiji Okada, Isao Kimura, Yoshi Katô, Seiji Miyaguchi, Eijirô Tôno, Toshiko Kobayashi, Michiko Araki, Teruko Kishi, Teruko Nagaoka, Sumio Takatsu

ED Yoshiki Nagasama

MUSIC Masao Oki

SOUND Koichi Iwata

Berlinale (Competition): Silver Bear for Best Director

Synopsis

Filmed in 1957, Tadashi Imai’s Junai Monogatari was released in the U.S. the following year as Story of a Pure Love. The title is tinged with irony: the young-lover protagonists (Hitomi Nakahara and Shinjiro Ebara) may be pure, but the society surrounding them is not. The heroine in particular is a victim of her environment, thrust into a girl’s reformatory where violence is the order of the day. To make matters worse, she is slowly dying of anemia, the result of the Hiroshima bombing of 1945. —Hal Erickson

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