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Les vicissitudes de la vie II

Original title: Kafuku kôhen
  • 1937
  • 1h 19m
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6.4/10
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Takako Irie in Les vicissitudes de la vie II (1937)
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  • Director
    • Mikio Naruse
  • Writers
    • Fumitaka Iwasaki
    • Kan Kikuchi
  • Stars
    • Minoru Takada
    • Takako Irie
    • Chieko Takehisa
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.4/10
    106
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    • Director
      • Mikio Naruse
    • Writers
      • Fumitaka Iwasaki
      • Kan Kikuchi
    • Stars
      • Minoru Takada
      • Takako Irie
      • Chieko Takehisa
    • 1User review
    • 1Critic review
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    Minoru Takada
    • Shintaro
    Takako Irie
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    • Toyomi
    Chieko Takehisa
    • Yurie
    Sadao Maruyama
    Yuriko Hanabusa
    Yuriko Hanabusa
    Setsuko Horikoshi
    Akira Ubukata
    Kaoru Itô
    Kô Mihashi
    Toshiko Itô
    Yumeko Aizome
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    Heihachirô Ôkawa
    Chizuko Kanda
    • Director
      • Mikio Naruse
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      • Fumitaka Iwasaki
      • Kan Kikuchi
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    The Women Sort Things Out

    This movie was released six weeks after LEARN FROM EXPERIENCE PART 1. Why a two-part movie? It looks like a matter of length. Together these movies take two and a half hours, which would have been a major epic, not a pot boiler. It was derived from a novel by Kan Kikuchi, and if you've ever seen any soap operas, you know that there has to be a satisfactory conclusion. I suspect it was handled a lot better in the novel.

    Anyway, at the end of the last movie, Takako Irie has gotten pregnant and decided not to tell Minoru Takada, out of some combination of self torture, revenge, and making a novelette into a novel. In the new movie, she gets a job at a store. Who walks in, but Chieko Takehisa, who's going to marry the man. They become great friends, and eventually, Miss Takehisa invites her friend and baby daughter to stay with her while her husband is in France. Eventually, of course, we all know he will walk in and be thunderstruck.

    It's not as good as the first movie. Takada is still a self-important fool, the coincidences too unlikely, and the solution too neat. The performances are still first-rate, even if the script has clearly been compressed by having parts of it narrated by letter.

    So, is one movie or two? If one, does the second half wreck the first? Personally, I find the first movie perfectly satisfactory on its own. Miss Irie is going to raise the baby on her own, the father will never know, and that's how things are.

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    • Release date
      • November 11, 1937 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Learn from Experience, Part II
    • Production company
      • Toho Eiga (Tokyo)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 19 minutes
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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