An old man, being rowed along a river, sees a field of wild chrysanthemums, and thinks back to when he was fifteen. He recalls his time with, and away from, the girl cousin he grew up with and would have married.
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I couldn't rate it elseways after the globally arresting ambitious Kurahara melodrama I'd just seen (Shuen), but it’s curious here how the actual evolution of the film frame models the narrative chronology, as if relying on an intrinsic code immediately transparent to the viewer: when staging the past, a color movie frequently employs monochrome shots (the in-film past handled by means of previous chromatic cinematic
The most beautiful realization of youthful love I've ever seen put to film, every second spent together is happiness, and every spent apart is sadness. Transcendental stuff, 5/5
For never was a story of more woe than this of Masao and his Tamiko. A reminiscing tale of impossible love. Also a contender for best film title ever. The filmuses uses an elliptical vignette almost throughout its entire duration.