Kisses (1957 film)

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Kisses
Directed by Yasuzō Masumura
Produced by Hidemasa Nagata
Written by
Starring
Music by Tetsuo Tsukahara
Cinematography Jōji Ohara
Edited by Tatsuji Nakashizuka
Production
company
Release dates
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  • 21 July 1957 (1957-07-21) (Japan)
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Running time
 74 minutes[1][2]
Country Japan
Language Japanese

Kisses (くちづけ Kuchizuke?), also titled The Kiss, is a 1957 Japanese drama film directed by Yasuzō Masumura, based on a novel by Matsutarō Kawaguchi.[1][2] It was Masumura's debut as a director[3][4] and is regarded as a precursor of the Japanese New Wave.[4][5][6]

Plot

Kinichi and Akiko meet at a prison in Tokyo, where their fathers are detained. Taking a liking to each other, they spend the day together, driving around on a borrowed motorcycle. Unable to pay both the bail bond for her father and her mother's hospital bill, Akiko gives in to the persistent courting of Osawa, asking him to loan her the needed money in return.

Cast

Release

Kisses was released in Japan on 21 July 1957.[1][2] It was first shown in New York as part of a Masumura retrospective on 18 April 1997.[7]

In more recent years, it has been shown at film museums such as the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in 1997,[8] the Cinémathèque Française in 2007,[9] and the Austrian Film Museum in 2008.[5]

Reception

After the film's initial release, critic (and future director) Nagisa Ōshima, admiring it for its mobile camera and amoral plot,[10] noted that "a powerful irresistible force has arrived in Japanese Cinema."[3]

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