Beautiful Days
BEAUTIFUL DAYS (1955, aka Uruwashiki Saigetsu) was one of a series of mainstream dramas and romances made by Kobayashi after his flirtation with independent film making on ROOM WITH THICK WALLS. A romantic drama, it put him back in the success column as a filmmaker, working in the popular realm of his mentor Keisuke Kinoshita, but now without the input of the latter or his relatives; and it also brought Kobayashi together with screenwriter Zenzo Matsuyama, with whom he would enjoy a rich creative partnership (culminating with THE HUMAN CONDITION I, II, and III) over the next few years, as he developed his own style and reputation within the studio system.
Starring Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Isao Kimura, Toshiko Kobayashi, Hitomi Nozoe, Eitarō Ozawa, Akiko Tamura, Junkichi Orimoto
Watch "Beautiful Days" on Criterion Channel released in 1955. It's a drama movie, and has a rating of 6.9 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.
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