Anjo Family's Ball

This film (drama)Also known as安城家の舞踏会，is aJapanProducerwomen sex，At1947Released in year 。The dialogue language isJapanese，Current Douban rating7.9(For reference only)。

A representative work of Koji Jimura, and one of Susan Sontag's favorite Japanese classics. Jimura loves to challenge difficulties, enjoys experiments, dislikes being categorized, and is the "bad boy" of Shochiku, but has opened up numerous possibilities for Japanese cinema. The film depicts the last ball held by a fallen noble family as they sell their grand mansion after World War II. Jimura personally experienced such a ball, and from what he saw and felt, he writes about intricate and vivid characters: a father enamored with the past, a son who feels superior, a daughter unwilling to lower herself... expressing the myriad details of a great era. It is also a representative work of Setsuko Hara, the perceptive daughter who dances with her father, becoming the focal point of the film and providing a brilliant interpretation of the era. World War II is over, and the once-prominent Anjo family has fallen on hard times. They must finally sell the family home - but not before one last ball to recapture their glory days. However, old secrets and high emotions threaten to turn the evening into tragedy. Proud patriarch Tadahiko (Takizawa) can barely keep his unruly offspring in check, and tries every last trick to keep the house where he has spent the happiest years of his life. In his darkest hour, daughter Atsuko (frequent Ozu heroine, Hara Setsuko) shows her beleaguered father the hard-won dignity in starting over. SummerIFF 2007