Set after the Second World War the film tells the story of Sachi, who is woken up late one night by her husband who staggers in. He is followed in close order by some barkeep who say he stole some money. She talks him out of trouble and in order to keep him that way she begins working for the bar owners. Things become complicated as people from their pasts and the feelings of jealousy comes in.
A deliberately paced (slow for some) film that really surprised me.
First off the films twists and turns are not what I expected. Clichés? Not this time out. In a weird way some of the twists and turns play closer to reality than most "real films". I was expecting gloom and doom and blood everywhere, it has the feel of that sort of tragedy, but it's not.
I liked that while on a certain level you kind of know the characters early on as time goes on and the film reveals more and more in flashbacks you get nice bit of shading that in a weird way explains so much about the characters.
Its a film that nicely confounds expectations in a good way.
A nice surprise.
A deliberately paced (slow for some) film that really surprised me.
First off the films twists and turns are not what I expected. Clichés? Not this time out. In a weird way some of the twists and turns play closer to reality than most "real films". I was expecting gloom and doom and blood everywhere, it has the feel of that sort of tragedy, but it's not.
I liked that while on a certain level you kind of know the characters early on as time goes on and the film reveals more and more in flashbacks you get nice bit of shading that in a weird way explains so much about the characters.
Its a film that nicely confounds expectations in a good way.
A nice surprise.
