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Ornamental Hairpin

Original title: Kanzashi
  • 19411941
  • 1h 10m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
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Ornamental Hairpin (1941)
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At a rural spa, a soldier accidentally cuts his foot on a hairpin. Soon enough he tracks down its lovely owner and finds himself smitten.At a rural spa, a soldier accidentally cuts his foot on a hairpin. Soon enough he tracks down its lovely owner and finds himself smitten.At a rural spa, a soldier accidentally cuts his foot on a hairpin. Soon enough he tracks down its lovely owner and finds himself smitten.
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
732
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    • Hiroshi Shimizu
    • Masuji Ibuse(story)
    • Yoshitomo Nagase
  • Stars
    • Kinuyo Tanaka
    • Hiroko Kawasaki
    • Tatsuo Saitô
    • Hiroshi Shimizu
    • Masuji Ibuse(story)
    • Yoshitomo Nagase
  • Stars
    • Kinuyo Tanaka
    • Hiroko Kawasaki
    • Tatsuo Saitô
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    • 4User reviews
    • 17Critic reviews
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    Kinuyo Tanaka
    Kinuyo Tanaka
    • Emi
    Hiroko Kawasaki
    • Okiku
    Tatsuo Saitô
    Tatsuo Saitô
    • Professor Katae
    Chishû Ryû
    Chishû Ryû
    • Osamura
    Shin'ichi Himori
    Shin'ichi Himori
    • Hiroyasu
    Kanji Kawahara
    • Old Man
    Koji Matsumoto
    • Head clerk
    Hideko Mimura
    • His Wife
    Tsuneo Ohsugi
    • Tsune
    • (as Tsuneo Osugi)
    Takeshi Sakamoto
    Takeshi Sakamoto
    • Inn's owner
    Kayoko Terada
    • Maid
    Jun Yokoyama
    • Taro
    Munenobu Yui
    • Toku
    Masayoshi Ôtsuka
    • Jiro
      • Hiroshi Shimizu
      • Masuji Ibuse(story)
      • Yoshitomo Nagase
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    8/10
    "All poetic illusion is like a dream, and is always beautiful. But all reality is always ugly."
    Hiroshi Shimizu's films have some sort of languishing energy that can be described as elegiac, mournful, or melancholic. This, as whimsical as it is, too cannot escape from such sorrow.

    The story sets in a small inn where almost everyone wants to know everybody's private business. When Chishu Ryu hurt his foot accidentally (or rather poetically) by a stranger's ornamental hairpin, the rest of the inn dwellers expect a love story to happen immediately. Nonetheless, life is often not that predictable.

    Eventually, every meeting ends with a bittersweet farewell. The problem is we never know when. To leave or to meet again lies on the palms of our hands, they say, but when a person is tied to their own fate, this kind of decision are deceptively simple because they can be hard to make. I suppose this is what most of us would call real life.
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      • August 26, 1941 (Japan)
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    • 1 hour 10 minutes
      • Black and White
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