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WAKA! HITO
(Young People)
A TOKYO HASSEI PICTURE
This is a film version of the novel W a\ai Hito by Yojiro Ishizaka, a rising literary talent. It was through this work that ishizaka achieved recognition, the book topping the season’s best seller list.
The setting of the tale is a mission school in northern Japan. Its principal characters are a girl student of the school and the teacher (a young man) who has charge of her class, as well as a woman colleague of the latter.
The girl student in question is the illegitimate daughter of a woman of a seaport town. Brought up as she was in such an environment, she possesses unusual nerves and a character far from meek. The pangs of her commingled sense of revolt and attachment are mirrored, as she grows older, in the minds of those with whom she comes in contact. At times the life of her teacher, as well as that of his woman colleague, is through this young girl thrown into confusion.
The film play under review is principally concerned with the depiction of such an environment. Obviously, the most interesting thing about it is the figure of the young girl as she is constantly swayed by complex psychological urges. Haruyo Ichikawa, who appeared in “The New Earth”, portrays this character, and she here exhibits a strange fascination in a new light.
The director is Shiro Toyoda. He has transferred this subject to the screen with a passionate understanding. Consequently, the film play, while possessing many faults from the point of view of movie technique, has above all, in virtue of the singular environment and psychology of the subject, touched the hearts of those who have viewed it.
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