A Japanese Money Lender's mistress tires of his lies and double life with his wife. She understands so well that people portray themselves entirely differently depending on the situation and her acting shows that accordingly. The meat of geese has long been appreciated, and goose bones have even been found in shell heaps from the prehistoric Jōmon period. The Flight of the Wild Geese The Goose Marsh. The whole marshland has come alive with geese, and their clamor is almost deafening. Feeling pressure to support her father who is frail, aging, and works to support them both by selling candy, Otama agrees to have dinner with a widowed kimono merchant who has offered to keep Otama as his mistress. Fortunately Takamine gave one of her best performance of all time, she balanced the compromising deceptiveness for the sake of survival and the desire of a pure and innocent love across one scene. Like a wave advancing to the shore, the geese bear down on the marsh. Utagawa Hiroshige, “Full Moon at Takanawa,” from the. (Photo courtesy of Miyajimanuma Waterbird and Wetlands Center). Suezō returns unexpectedly, discovers the meal and tells her Mr. Otaka is going away to Europe. Hideko Takamine Hiroshi Akutagawa Jukichi Uno Eijirō Tōno Chōko Iida Eizo Tanaka Kumeko Urabe Miki Odagiri Kuniko Miyake Tadashi Date, 104 mins Otama becomes resigned to her situation, and the film closes with her watching wild geese flying over water. Still, not quite my kind of film. The official records of the Edo shogunate (1603–1867) include details of the shōgun’s hunting—467 geese of different types were taken, greater than the number of cranes or any other birds. Unbeknown to her, Suezō, the man she has agreed to meet, is in fact a still married moneylender and the arrangement between them has been set up to settle some debts of the matchmaker. The disappearance of white-fronted geese from locations across the country went hand-in-hand with Japan’s rapid economic growth from the latter half of the 1950s to the 1960s. First serialized in 1911–13, it tells the story of a fleeting love between the protagonist, a medical student at the University of Tokyo, and a beautiful woman forced to become the mistress of a moneylender to provide for her impoverished parents. The Wild Geese (Japanese: 雁, Hepburn: Gan) is a Japanese film directed by Shirō Toyoda and first released in 1953 in Japan and 1959 in the U.S. Because of this Otama is considered a disgrace and finding a good match near impossible. © Letterboxd Limited. TMDb The tone's almost Bozageian toward the end in its otherworldly romanticism, I won't ever say that's a bad thing. Not only is she the embodiment of Japanese femininity (more than Setsuko Hara anyway), she is also the most skilled actress (again, more than Setsuko Hara). Miyajimanuma gained its Ramsar designation because it is Japan’s northernmost and largest stopover for migrating white-fronted geese, as well as one of the most important staging sites—places where the birds rest and gather strength during lengthy migrations—anywhere in the world. (Seriously though, how much pain and suffering has been caused because men with power wanted to get their dicks wet? She's lit only by a shaft of moonlight that is reflecting the rain against her and that wall. As she begrudgingly accepts to be a man's mistress there is a bashful but sweet element as she navigates this new arrangement when he is around. There are 14 species known worldwide, of which 9, including the white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons), the bean goose (A. fabalis), the cackling goose (Branta hutchinsii), and the brant (B. bernicla), have been recorded in Japan.