KANOJO TO KARE (Neue Blicke auf die japanische Filmgeschichte)

In the organizer's words:

Thu 10.10., 20h, with an introduction by Esther Buss & Sat 19.10., 19h
KANOJO TO KARE She and He Susumu Hani Japan 1963 35 mm jap. OmeU 110'
From her window in a new apartment complex on the outskirts of the city, young housewife Naoko only notices the shanty town next door when it catches fire. Her interest in the people living there, among whom she meets one of her husband's former fellow students who is doing his best to look after a blind orphaned girl and his dog, is met with suspicion and incomprehension by those around her. She soon extends her newly awakened social awareness to herself, her social isolation as a housewife and wife of a businessman, her identity and her place in the world. The film's contrasts reveal the deep divide between different social classes: those who share in the newly created prosperity and those who are excluded from it.