Jôen

Feb 1 1969 N/A 1h 37m
Drama, Romance

As a young woman, Oriko condemned her widowed mother for openly pursuing relationships with younger men. After her mother passes away, she finds herself in an unhappy, loveless marriage and begins to understand her mother’s actions.

Plot

Oriko and her mother had a difficult relationship. She knew of her mother's relationships with men, and insisted she stop, interfering in the affair. Now that her mother died in a mysterious accident, she attempts to find out more about her from her lovers. She herself is in an unhappy marriage; one without love. She wishes to divorce her husband, a prosperous, unfaithful man but he refuses. Through this dilemma she begins to understand her mother more and more, and that they are more alike than she thinks. After a long time, she attends another poetry meeting in the house of Mitsuhuru, a sculptor who had a relationship with her mother five years earlier, against which she had serious objections. And now she begins some affairs including him. Then she gets thrown into a romantic dilemma after succumbing to a rough laborer. At another time, she, always wearing traditional kimonos, witnesses the rape of her more frivolous sister-in-law.

Written by

Masaaki Tachihara, Yoshishige Yoshida, Tsutomu Tamura

Directed by

Yoshishige Yoshida

Production Countries

Japan

Production Companies

Gendai Eigasha

Languages

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
477
Average Rating
7.3 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA