Yearning

Yearning

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Release Date

1/15/1964

Runtime

98 mins

Overview

War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws plan to convert their small shop into a supermarket, to her detriment.

Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Budget

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Revenue

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Homepage

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A quiet, introspective portrait of a widow navigating the slow erosion of her small-town life as modernity encroaches. The film finds profound emotional weight in the collision between personal devotion and economic inevitability.

Mood

MelancholicWistfulContemplativeBittersweet

Themes

GriefFamilyLoveClassMemory

Tone

Tender

Pacing

Meditative

Look

NaturalisticDocumentary-like

Structure

Linear

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