Review: Jubilation Street (1944)

Director: Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast: Ken Uehara, Mitsuko Mito, Chiyo Shin, Eijirō Tōno, Shinichi Himori,

Ken Uehara

Mitsuko Mito

Chiyo Shin

Eijirō Tōno

Shinichi Himori

Plot: The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

Subverting propaganda:</br><i>Keisuke Kinoshita and World War II</i>

Subverting propaganda:Keisuke Kinoshita and World War II

Criterion’s latest Eclipse release opens a window on a previously little-seen world: the Japanese home front during World War 2 as depicted under oppressive regulations during the war. The great Keisuke Kinoshita managed to inject elements […]

Review: Jubilation Street (1944)

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