(originally written December 15, 2009)
This is the 2nd Naruse film I've seen and I'm slowly and steadily falling in love with the man; he's got a way of observing people, woman in particular (which only two films into his filmography I feel he does better than Mizoguchi), that is so simple and fluid. There's a subtle underlying idea of futility to the actions of all his main characters; they can choose to do something, but chances are it won't work out and they'll either die or end up continuing on with their old ways. This film strengthens this theory; a spoiled rich boy, I'll call him a boy because that's what he acts like, who is completely oblivious to the feelings of all those around him marries a woman that he doesn't care about at all and then coldly turns around and demands from his father that he be allowed to get a divorce; when the younging is talking to his dad he almost sounds like something Oshima would say to an older Japanese male at the time; questioning societal norms, ethics and morals.
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