Classic Japanese Cinema Discussion Thread

Kawashima also worked with lovely, talented Ayako Wakao ,  full of playful visual surprises and sharp social commentary, confined in a small apartment setting Shitoyakana kedamono , The Graceful Brute (1962) is a sensational dark satire. The melodramatic gem, Gan no tera , The Temple of Wild Geese (1962)  was adapted from the autobiographical novel Gan no tera, from Tsutomu Mizukami  which won the Naoki Prize in 1961...