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Beautiful Days 1955
Marvelous. Kobayashi is most well-known for directing epics like Harakiri and The Human Condition trilogy, but he shows incredible versatility here in tackling a romantic drama, with all the exquisite sophistication of Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner and Ophuls' Letter from an Unknown Woman. Criminally underseen.
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In Memory of the Day Passed By 1990
Like all essential cinema, my life would be poorer not having seen this film.