Silent Naruse (Eclipse #26, DVD) michael ritchie and the animation of Pascal

and the animation of Pascal Blais Productions

all in the name of justice

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released a full two years before the international success of The Exorcist

Silent Naruse (Eclipse #26, DVD) michael ritchie and the animation of PascalMikio Naruse is one of the most popular directors in the history of Japanese cinema, a crafter of heartrending melodramas often compared with the work of Yasujiro Ozu and Kenji Mizoguchi. From the outset of his career, with his silent films of the early thirties, Naruse focused on characters, mostly womengeisha, housewives, waitressescarrying on despite the compromises and disappointments of confined daily lives, a subject that would continue to