Unending Advance

(1937)

★ 10 IMDb · 1 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1937

Runtime: 99 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 内田吐夢

Cast: 小杉勇, 瀧花久子, 轟夕起子, 江川宇礼雄, 片山明彦, 紅澤葉子, 飛田喜佐夫, 見明凡太朗, Ryôichi Kikuchi, 中村英雄

Plot

One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian problems of a middle-aged salaryman and his family segues into an idyllic dream of an implausible future. The surviving print, although incomplete, offers an essential glimpse into Uchida’s prewar period, when he was associated more with realist dramas than with the period films that dominated his work after the war.