Dancing Girl
1951 · Movie · 85 min. · Japan
Dancing Girl is an important transitional film, as Naruse deploys some of the flamboyant melodramatic devices that he used in the 1930s in the context of a story that is very much a postwar narrative. Elaborate, distinctive camera movements at moments of high dramatic tension tend to displace acting technique in the representation of psychological states. Used only in conjunction with the two main women characters, Namiko (Takamine Mieko) and her daughter Shinako (Okada Mariko), the camera movements now seem to detract from the emotional weight of the drama.
Direction Mikio Naruse
Cast Sô Yamamura · Mieko Takamine · Mariko Okada · Akihiko Katayama · Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi · Bontarô Miake · Isao Kimura · Reiko Otani · Heihachiro Okawa · Sadako Sawamura
Soundtrack Ichiro Saitô
Screenplay Kaneto Shindô · Yasunari Kawabata
Cinematography Asakazu Nakai
Original title Maihime (Dancing Girl)
7.2
42 votes (FilmAffinity)
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