She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955)
野菊の如き君なりき
On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.
- Date of release
- 1955-11-29
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (16)
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Romance, Drama
- Director
- Keisuke Kinoshita
Casting
- Noriko Arita — Tamiko
- Shinji Tanaka — Masao, as a teenager
- Chishū Ryū — Masao - Age 73
- Takahiro Tamura
- Haruko Sugimura — Masao's mother
- Keiko Yukishiro — Tamiko's older sister
- Kazuko Motohashi — Tamiko's Mother
- Kumeko Urabe — Grandmother
- Kappei Matsumoto
- Nobuo Takagi — Tamiko's father
- Toshiko Kobayashi
Interesting facts
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum , also known as You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum or My First Love Affair, is a 1955 Japanese drama film written and directed by Keisuke Kinoshita. It is based on a novel by Sachio Itō.
Production
The flashback sequences were framed with an oval-shaped mask typically associated with silent films. According to film historian Alexander Jacoby, this masking gives the film "an appropriately nostalgic tone." Film historian Donald Richie describes this device as representing "Meiji daguerrotypes."
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