> Good For Nothing
> Bloody Thirst
> A Flame At The Pier
> Hogs And Warships
> A Man Vanishes
> Ototo

Young Gen is manipulated by her stepmother, a coldhearted devotee of Christ, into the role of servant and surrogate mother to her troubled brother; meanwhile a revered father sits at his writing table, occasionally putting pen to paper. The girl enters womanhood too exhausted to assume a life of her own. This moving film about the force of familial obligations in a patriarchal household during the Taisho period is a triumph of visual expression working against plot expectations.

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