今日もまたかくてありなん (1959)

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Thus Another Day is a 1959 Japanese drama film directed by Keisuke Kinoshita.

Production

The role of Shusuke Takemura, the veteran befriended by Yasuko, was played by kabuki actor Kanzaburō Nakamura XVII, whose four-year-old son Kankurō (later Kanzaburō Nakamura XVIII) played Kazuo, sharing screen credit with the popular stars who played his parents, Teiji Takahashi—who died in an automobile accident shortly after the film's release—and Yoshiko Kuga. The senior Nakamura received the only solo screen credit among the cast members.

Kinoshita capitalized on the singing career of Kazuya Kosaka in casting him as Yasuko's younger brother Gorô, whose proud decision not to aspire to a higher class or calling seems influenced by his kinship with the fatalistic Takemura.

One of Kinoshita's shortest features, the film's brisk pace includes many cinematic ellipses that either withhold information for later revelation—such as the identity of the driver who transports the yakuza to their vacation home—or permit viewers to imagine sequences that aren’t explicitly shown, such as the fate of Shusuke and Tomoe's daughter; his confrontation with the yakuza who have cuckolded him; and the two visits of Shôichi to the execu…

Kinoshita filmed much of Thus Another Day on location in both Tokyo and the resort area of Karuizawa, which features prominently in the boating and waterfront talent show scenes.

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