Kohei OGURI
Muddy River
泥の河
Nippon Retro ²
Osaka, 1956: The Korean War is over and the industrial city is experiencing an economic boom. Nobuo’s parents run a small restaurant on the banks of the Yodo River. With big, innocent children’s eyes, the boy looks into a world in which poverty and the wounds of war cannot be overlooked. Kohei OGURI masterfully combines emotion and history in vivid black-and-white images. One of the most impressive films in cinema history on childhood and the post-war period.
泥の河
Doro no kawa
Japan 1981
105 minutes
Director
Kohei OGURI
Script
Takako SHIGEMORI based on a novel by Teru MIYAMOTO
Cinematography
Shohei ANDO
Music
Kurodo MORI
World sales
Office Oguri Kohei
Film print
Japan Foundation
Cast
Nobutaka ASAHARA, Takahiro TAMURA, Yumiko FUJITA, Minoru SAKURAI, Makiko SHIBATA
In cooperation with Japan Foundation Tokyo and Japanisches Kulturinstitut (The Japan Foundation)
