Kyô mo mata kakute ari nan (1959)

Kyô mo mata kakute ari nan: Directed by Keisuke Kinoshita. With Teiji Takahashi, Yoshiko Kuga, Kanzaburô Nakamura, Shûji Sano. A young wife looses patience with her career-minded husband and returns to her parents’ home while an unpaid mortgage forces the couple to rent out their home for the summer to the husband’s boss.

“Teiji Takahashiu0026#39;s boss is looking for summer home, so Takahashi and his wife, Yoshiko Kuga, agree to rent him their house. It will pay for the mortgage. He will stay with a friend, and she will take their son to visit her family. They live in a mountain resort town. Itu0026#39;s no real vacation. Hoods from the city are causing problems, and the police wonu0026#39;t deal with them. Her sisteru0026#39;s ice cream cart business is thwarted by cool and rainy weather. Miss Kuga makes friends with an ex-army officer who hates himself for sending his soldiers to die in the War. He lives by taking money from his separated wife to look after their daughter.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eEveryone is living from day to day, treading in accustomed paths, waiting for something to happen, like the poem quoted in the movie; a line of it is the movieu0026#39;s title. They feel as if society has broken down, and there is nothing left to do but wearily return to what they have done yesterday.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eItu0026#39;s the flip side to writer-director Keisuke Kinoshitau0026#39;s bitter comedies. Itu0026#39;s a study in anomie and despair and very telling, a story of people at a loss how to fix anything, but they still continue out of habit.”