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.
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