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(1960) Her Brother/ Brother
(In Japanese with English subtitles)
DRAMA
Adapted from the novel by Aya Kôda that has older sister by three years, Gen - Chan or Gen (Keiko Kishi) trying to hand her younger brother, Hekiro (Hiroshi Kawaguchi) an umbrella. He refuses and trots on ahead of her despite him being the only student who is not using an umbrella. The next scene has Gen being dragged by some men who work at the grocery store and are then pulled into a small isolated room, accused of theft. She would then pull out her receipts to show that she paid for all of her things. And they let her go by using the back door entrance. On her way home, she then spots her brother lying on the ground gazing at the sky. We then see what her home life is like to which as soon as she goes inside, her ailing mother (Kinuyo Tanaka) then demands to see her. And we find out she is suffering from rheumatism, and she wanted to ask her daughter regarding some rumors that has been going around. Before Gen goes and cooks supper, we then see her dad (Masayuki Mori) sitting by himself in his study. He happens to be a writer/ novelist, and the family itself appear to be living by his residuals. For the next hour or so, all we are seeing is her younger brother, Hekiro becoming a burden to the family itself from him switching to different schools because he was always getting himself in trouble to getting Gen paying off his debts he was racking up. She does this by getting the money from her dad or she gets paid herself.
The movie is okay as it is nothing more but a straight up drama that does not explain everything. For example, I don't quite understand whether Gen has a job as well besides getting the money from her dad and mother. Because there were times, she said she was borrowing from her dad to help pay for her brother's debts, but it is like where is she going to get the money to pay her dad back if she has no job. Gen's love life is a little ambiguous as well since the guy who was interested in her. As a viewer I'd like to know how much he was paid since it was not like he was being paid nothing at all.
Adapted from the novel by Aya Kôda that has older sister by three years, Gen - Chan or Gen (Keiko Kishi) trying to hand her younger brother, Hekiro (Hiroshi Kawaguchi) an umbrella. He refuses and trots on ahead of her despite him being the only student who is not using an umbrella. The next scene has Gen being dragged by some men who work at the grocery store and are then pulled into a small isolated room, accused of theft. She would then pull out her receipts to show that she paid for all of her things. And they let her go by using the back door entrance. On her way home, she then spots her brother lying on the ground gazing at the sky. We then see what her home life is like to which as soon as she goes inside, her ailing mother (Kinuyo Tanaka) then demands to see her. And we find out she is suffering from rheumatism, and she wanted to ask her daughter regarding some rumors that has been going around. Before Gen goes and cooks supper, we then see her dad (Masayuki Mori) sitting by himself in his study. He happens to be a writer/ novelist, and the family itself appear to be living by his residuals. For the next hour or so, all we are seeing is her younger brother, Hekiro becoming a burden to the family itself from him switching to different schools because he was always getting himself in trouble to getting Gen paying off his debts he was racking up. She does this by getting the money from her dad or she gets paid herself.
The movie is okay as it is nothing more but a straight up drama that does not explain everything. For example, I don't quite understand whether Gen has a job as well besides getting the money from her dad and mother. Because there were times, she said she was borrowing from her dad to help pay for her brother's debts, but it is like where is she going to get the money to pay her dad back if she has no job. Gen's love life is a little ambiguous as well since the guy who was interested in her. As a viewer I'd like to know how much he was paid since it was not like he was being paid nothing at all.
(1947) Riff-Raff/ Riffraff
CRIME DRAMA
It opens with one guy standing around underneath a cockpit waiting for a plane to take off. Coming along with that person is supposed to be another passenger. By the time he shows up, he was carrying with him is a briefcase. While each one of them are sitting by themselves in the cargo plane, one of the two men spots a baby chick out of it's group, and he picks it up and puts it back with it's other baby chicks. Then the focus goes toward the pilots when he sees the signal of the door has been opened, and he heads on back. The guy who picked up the baby chick and placed it back with it's goslings then claims the other passenger had jumped. By the time plane lands, we find out that it flew from Peru to Panama and as the passenger is arriving to get his luggage inspected, viewers then notice that the briefcase that used to belong to the other passenger who allegedly jumped has now belonged to the new passenger we find out his name Charles Hasso (Marc Krah). Waiting for him there is the head of the secret police, Lt. Rues (George Givot) and he cross examines Charles and he informs him he is staying at a hotel. But before he goes there, he first stops by to see the star of the movie, Dan Hammer (Pat O'Brien) wanting his services as a bodyguard for a day or two. And while he was changing into his new clothes, he then takes a map out of his briefcase and pins it on to the board with other papers. During this conversation, a phone call disrupts them to go and see this other person instead. Dan's driver, Pop (Percy Kilbride) drives both of them to drop Charles to the hotel, before he sees oil executive, Jerome Cowan (Walter F. Gredson) and his partner, Domingues ( Jason Robards)
There was this one fight sequence that looked kind of cool was when one of the goons throws a knife, and the star Dan grabs a stool and that is where the knife ends up hitting instead of it's intended target. Some of the scenes is predictable but other than that, it is actually quite entertaining.
It opens with one guy standing around underneath a cockpit waiting for a plane to take off. Coming along with that person is supposed to be another passenger. By the time he shows up, he was carrying with him is a briefcase. While each one of them are sitting by themselves in the cargo plane, one of the two men spots a baby chick out of it's group, and he picks it up and puts it back with it's other baby chicks. Then the focus goes toward the pilots when he sees the signal of the door has been opened, and he heads on back. The guy who picked up the baby chick and placed it back with it's goslings then claims the other passenger had jumped. By the time plane lands, we find out that it flew from Peru to Panama and as the passenger is arriving to get his luggage inspected, viewers then notice that the briefcase that used to belong to the other passenger who allegedly jumped has now belonged to the new passenger we find out his name Charles Hasso (Marc Krah). Waiting for him there is the head of the secret police, Lt. Rues (George Givot) and he cross examines Charles and he informs him he is staying at a hotel. But before he goes there, he first stops by to see the star of the movie, Dan Hammer (Pat O'Brien) wanting his services as a bodyguard for a day or two. And while he was changing into his new clothes, he then takes a map out of his briefcase and pins it on to the board with other papers. During this conversation, a phone call disrupts them to go and see this other person instead. Dan's driver, Pop (Percy Kilbride) drives both of them to drop Charles to the hotel, before he sees oil executive, Jerome Cowan (Walter F. Gredson) and his partner, Domingues ( Jason Robards)
There was this one fight sequence that looked kind of cool was when one of the goons throws a knife, and the star Dan grabs a stool and that is where the knife ends up hitting instead of it's intended target. Some of the scenes is predictable but other than that, it is actually quite entertaining.
(1972) The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
WESTERN
It has Paul Newman taking over and claiming reigns of a small abandoned area that evolve itself into a town while claiming himself to be judge, jury and executioner.
After watching this movie kind of reminiscent to another movie released two years earlier called "The Ballad of Cable Hogue" released in 1970 a movie that is also about a man stumbling onto a small water hole as he was dying of thirst. He would then find out that the developers had the area not to have any water at all, who then claimed the property as his own to be judge, jury and executioner to anyone who passes by including stagecoaches and to anyone who want to take sip of water.
It has Paul Newman taking over and claiming reigns of a small abandoned area that evolve itself into a town while claiming himself to be judge, jury and executioner.
After watching this movie kind of reminiscent to another movie released two years earlier called "The Ballad of Cable Hogue" released in 1970 a movie that is also about a man stumbling onto a small water hole as he was dying of thirst. He would then find out that the developers had the area not to have any water at all, who then claimed the property as his own to be judge, jury and executioner to anyone who passes by including stagecoaches and to anyone who want to take sip of water.