"The Road I Travel With You" concerns two brothers of marriageable age and their mother, a former geisha who has been set up by an absent patron in a spacious country home in Kamakura. The futures of the two boys, torn between love matches and arranged marriages, are inseparable from the loaded questions of family status, money, and decisions made by the head of wealthy families.
If you have a free afternoon and don't mind feeling a little sad about how families work, this is a good one to put on. You should watch it if you like stories where the real drama happens in the silences between people drinking tea. You will probably hate it if you need things to blow up or if you can't stand characte...
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"If you have a free afternoon and don't mind feeling a little sad about how families work, this is a good one to put on. You should watch it if you like stories where the real drama happens in the silences between people drinking tea. You will probably hate it if you need things to blow up or if you can't stand characters who won't just say what they are thinking. It’s a slow burn, but a real one. So, I finally sat down with this Naruse film. It is not one of his big, famous masterpieces that ev..."
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