My favorite shot (also the most suspenseful) is when Sato-San finds Yusa and chases after him - we cross-cut to the Murakami and hear two shots with the music and the background. All we see are the bystanders and Sato-San's body on the floor in the pouring rain....breathtaking.
That whole sequence was brilliant!
My favorite shot is when the girl Mifune was chasing finally gives up and gives him a sandwich and tea of a roof top, she leans back and looks at the stars and he look up at the stars too. That too was breathtaking. I wish I could freeze that shot and put it in a picture frame. I love it.
shareboth great shots. one i loved was when harumi puts on the stolen dress and is spinning wildly around whilst the thunder and lightning is booming outside, it just struck me as very dramatic and scary, but beautiful at the same time.
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The whole scene with the dress is wonderfully shot. As Harumi spins around she says, 'This is fun, this is interesting, this is like a dream.' My subs unfortunately just read, 'I am happy.'
Harumi's mother dressed in a kimono, rips the western dress off her daughter as Murakami watches on in a scene reminiscent of a Vermeer. The next shot of Murakami in the western suit is awesome. The suit is so ill fitting and uncomfortable looking. One would not be mistaken for reading into these scenes the message for Japan to be careful about losing its own culture.
The next shot framed through the window: Harumi crying at her mother's feet, Murakami looking on and the dress getting soaked on the window sill is superlative.
Cut to Sato framed in the entrance of the Musashi Restaurant in the pouring rain.
All the scenes in the Kogetsu Restaurant, Musashi Restaurant and The Yayoi Hotel contain women in Kimonos. The next woman we meet in western style clothing after the Harumi spinning scene is the flirtatious hotel receptionist as if to prove the point.