Movies: Kiyoko Rokugo

1938 Theater of Life adaptation....

Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a suffocatingly domestic turn after a wealthy businessman ac...

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted....