EVERY-NIGHT DREAMS (1933)
Part of: The Chicago Film Society Presents
Tickets: $12 in advance or at door / $9 in advance or at door for Music Box Theatre members
DIRECTED BY Mikio Naruse
STORY BY Mikio Naruse
WRITTEN BY Tadao Ikeda
STARRING Sumiko Kurishima, Teruko Kojima, Jun Arai, Tatsuo Saitô
RUN TIME 65 min
PRODUCTION COMPANY Shochiku Kamata
PRINT SOURCE 35mm from National Film Archive of Japan, permission Janus Films
PRECEDED BY: “Up and Down the Waterfront” (Rudy Burckhart, 1946) – 8 min – 16mm from Canyon Cinema
Live musical accompaniment by the MIYUMI Project Japanese Experimental Ensemble. Sponsored by Asian Improv aRts Midwest
Presented by the Chicago Film Society
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Mikio Naruse’s career spanned the 1930s late-silent era up through the time of color film and anamorphic widescreen. His interest in the professional and domestic lives of modern working women in Japan was a constant throughout the dozens of films he worked on, reaching as far back as Every-Night Dreams, one of Naruse’s earliest surviving features. Sumiko Kurishima, one of the first major screen stars in the Japanese film industry, stars as bar hostess Omitsu, toughing out single motherhood after being abandoned by her husband Mizuhara. After a three-year absence, Mizuhara suddenly returns as a supposedly reformed man ready to care for his family, only to create more problems for them through his weak and ineffectual constitution. While the subject is squarely in his wheelhouse, Naruse’s visual style in Every-Night Dreams is unusual in his filmography for its bombastic approach, finding myriad opportunities to echo Omitsu’s tumultuous home life with nervy push-ins and ominous dolly movements. (CW)
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