^ Fujiki, Hideaki Phillips, Alastair, eds.Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day. ^ a b c "あにいもうと (Older Brother, Younger Sister)".Older Brother, Younger Sister was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in 1985 as part of its retrospective on Mikio Naruse, and at the Cinémathèque Française in 20. The story has been translated into English by Edward Seidensticker and is available in the anthology Modern Japanese Stories. It had been adapted for the screen the first time in 1936 by Sotoji Kimura and again in 1976 by Tadashi Imai. Literary source įirst published in 1934, Saisei Murō's short story Ani imōto had won the Bungei Konwakai Award. Keith Uhlich of Slant Magazine gave the film 3.5 of 4 stars for showing Naruse's "considerable skill at portraying household dynamics". In 2008, film scholar Alexander Jacoby called Older Brother, Younger Sister an "uncharacteristically brutal film in which the emotional tensions explode into physical violence". Six years after the film's premiere, film historian Donald Richie objected that by "attempting to move from realism to naturalism, Naruse is occasionally at fault in manipulating his characters a bit too obviously".
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