Director Kaneto Shindō brings forth a film of despair presenting us with a family who lives on an island and the trials and tribulations they must deal on a day to day basis just to survive. Little dialog is used or needed to convey the physical and emotional baggage that this family has to endure just to survive on their chosen piece of land. This was showing at BAM and is a part of series of other Japanese films from the 1960′s being shown there.
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