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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.

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Stories Of Youth

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

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