A Hen in the Wind

1948 [JAPANESE]

Drama

6
IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 2033 2K

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Plot summary

Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. She takes him to the doctor for treatment but has no way of paying. She resorts to prostitution. One month later her husband returns from WWII to find his desperate wife, who tells him the truth. Together they must deal with the consequences.

Director

Yasujirô Ozu Photo
Yasujirô Ozu

Top cast

Chishû Ryû Photo
Chishû Ryû as Kazuichiro Satake
Kôji Mitsui Photo
Kôji Mitsui as Hideo
Kunio Teshirogi Photo
Kunio Teshirogi as
Fumiko Okamura Photo
Fumiko Okamura as Landlady
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
768.64 MB
986*720
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 23 min
Seeds 12
1.39 GB
1480*1080
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 23 min
Seeds 24

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by lyrast 8 / 10

Dark exploration of moral decisions in an extreme situation

Reviewed by Alexandre1553 8 / 10

Ozu's true first post-war movie

"Record of a Tenement Gentleman" is Ozu's actual first post-war movie, but while it is set in a post-war environment it still relied a lot in his themes of family, father/mother and son, family love that Ozu had always explored, rather than discussing questions from a post-war society."A Hen in the Wind" does that. It offers a true war/post-war situation and deals with the people that suffer from it.The story is quite simple and I've found some of his other movies to be more emotional. However, it is one of his most serious and violent. I do think Ozu is capable of adding more depth to his movies than what we see here, but I was very happy to find a different subject from what he does usually, explored in a such disturbing way. Ozu's themes are pretty much the same all over his work, but "A Hen in the Wind" stands out for a different kind of serious issue. It is, for that, very refreshing.Very serious, very sad, very human, unexpectedly violent and a touching look at a post-war situation, it stands out mostly for being different from Ozu's usual themes.
Reviewed by jazzest 7 / 10

Uniquely Serious and Emotional Ozu Film

In postwar Japan, a wife has to deal with the consequence of her decision when she needed her son's hospital charges during her husband's absence. The theme, women's harsh reality at the time, is exceptionally serious for Ozu. It makes Hen in the Wind uniquely and intensely emotional, combined with Ozu's style, such as off-screen actions, implicative montages, and singsong dialogues.
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