After the Flowers

After the Flowers

2009, 107 min., 35 mm, color, in Japanese with English subtitles. Directed by Kenji Nakanishi. With Keiko Kitagawa, Masahiro Komoto, Shuntaro Miyao, Akiko Aitsuki.

Adapted from a short story by Fujisawa shuhei.

If Jane Austen had ever written an edo-period love story or Ozu Yasujiro directed a swordplay drama, it might have looked a little like After the Flowers, an exquisitely mounted second feature by Nakanishi Kenji in which all emotions are beneath social surfaces and swordplay is held back to only two life-changing fights.

Part of Sakura — Spring Renews, Beauty Blooms.

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