北方的葬礼

本作の主人公は、青春時代を過ごした銀平町に一文無しで帰ってきたさすらいの映画監督・近藤。彼はひょんなことから映画好きなホームレスの佐藤や、商店街の一角にある映画館・銀平スカラ座の支配人と出会い、アルバイトを始める。そして個性豊かな常連客たちとの出会いを経て、かつての自分と向き合うさまが描かれる。

The Kinema Junpo critics were, of course, mistaken to think that Naruse had abandoned his emphasis on women. His next film, Sincerity, features two strong female characters, played by Irie Takako and Murase Sachiko, each of whom have a daughter. The girls are schoolmates, but one (Nobuko) is from a middle-class home and the other (Tomiko) is from a poor family. Tomiko's mother Tsutako (Irie) is a single mother who works from home as a seamstress, while Nobuko's mother lives in an elegant home with her husband, Kei. Eventually, it is revealed that Kei had a romantic relationship with Tsutako, and may be Tomiko's father as well, but he is conscripted shortly after this revelation and goes off to war.This is very much a home front film, in which the women are involved in supporting activities, and the whole town cheers on the new recruits. As Kei is a banker, he is conscripted as an officer. He is introduced brandishing a magnificent sword, indicating his readiness for his call-up, for which everyone congratulates him when it comes. The wartime context is little more than a backdrop to the story of paternity and former love. The complex emotions among the women are conveyed through cutting on eye movements and eye lines, and through the use of the pastoral location.

12个陌生人在空地上醒来。他们不知道自己在哪里，或者是如何到达这里的。他们不知道他们已经被选中，为了一个非常特殊的目的——捕猎。

Each year, a father films his daughter on her birthday, asking her the same questions. In just 29 minutes, we watch her grow from a toddler to a young woman with all the beautiful and awkward stages in between. Each phase is fleetingly captured but leaves an indelible mark. Her answers to her father’s questions are just a backdrop for a deeper story of parental love and, ultimately, independence.