Underplayed Gems

Sound of the Mountain (1954)

Sound of the Mountain poster
Original title
山の音
Directed by
Mikio Naruse
Genre
drama film
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 36m
Rating
7.4 of 10 from 67 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A man in postwar Japan lives with his son and daughter in law. He watches the strain in their marriage and reflects on his own past.

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What happens

Sound of the Mountain (Japanese: 山の音, Hepburn: Yama no oto) is a 1954 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. It is based on the novel The Sound of the Mountain by Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata. Naruse declared Sound of the Mountain one of his favourites of his films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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