May 22, 2020
We devote some meta-theorizing to Setsuko Hara's screen persona and its reception and look at two of her lesser-known films that are available with English subtitles, Kōzaburō Yoshimura's A Ball at the Anjo House (1947), and the very uncharacteristic A Woman in the Typhoon Area (1948, directed by Hideo Ôba), in which she plays a vampy tramp who is nevertheless as caring as her more familiar characters. Then we discuss a couple of movies about isolated romance: Frank Capra's Lost Horizon and John Cromwell's The Enchanted Cottage.
Time Codes:
0h 01m 00s: More Meta Musings on Setsuko Hara
0h 15m 42s: A Ball at the Anjo House (1947; dir. Kōzaburō Yoshimura)
0h 45m 06s: A Woman in the Typhoon Area (1948; dir. Hideo Ôba)
1h 02m 21s: Anniversary talk; featuring short bonus discussions of Frank Capra’s Lost Horizon (1937) and John Cromwell’s The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
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