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Evening Stream
JAPAN · 1960

Evening Stream

Mikio Naruse
unrequited love intergenerational conflict trauma and displacement class and labor emotional paralysis
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Synopsis

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself 'already dead'.

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