With Beauty and Sorrow
Original Japanese poster
Japanese name
Kanji美しさと哀しみと
Transcriptions
Revised HepburnUtsukushisa to kanashimi to
Directed byMasahiro Shinoda
Written byNobuo Yamada (screenplay)
Yasunari Kawabata (novel)
Produced byTakeshi Sasaki
StarringKaoru Yachigusa
Mariko Kaga
Sō Yamamura
CinematographyMasao Kosugi
Edited byYoshi Sugihara
Music byTōru Takemitsu
Production
company
Distributed byShochiku
Release date
  • 28 February 1965 (1965-02-28) (Japan)
[1][2]
Running time
103 minutes[1][2]
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

With Beauty and Sorrow (美しさと哀しみと, Utsukushisa to kanashimi to) is a 1965 Japanese drama film directed by Masahiro Shinoda.[3] It is based on the novel Beauty and Sadness (1961–63) by Nobel Prize winning writer Yasunari Kawabata.[1][2]

Plot

Ageing writer Ōki travels to Kyoto to meet with former lover Otoko. Fifteen years ago, the married Ōki and the then still teenage Otoko had had an affair. Otoko became pregnant by him, attempted suicide after a miscarriage, and spent several months in a mental institution, while her mother tried to persuade Ōki to marry Otoko, but to no avail. Ōki later used the affair in a novel, typed up by his grieving wife Fumiko, who had learned of his infidelity by Otoko's mother. The novel, called "The Bitter Seventeen", turned out to be a bestseller.

Otoko, now a painter and art teacher, lives with a young woman, Keiko, who is both her pupil and life partner. Keiko, jealous that Otoko has never completely stopped loving Ōki, and obsessed with the idea to avenge her lover's suffering, spends the night with Ōki and later makes an appointment with his son Taichiro, intent on destroying the writer's family. While Otoko scolds Keiko for what she sees as mere egoism, Fumiko tells her husband that she suspects that the young woman is up to something.

After Taichiro and Keiko have spent the afternoon in a hotel, they go on a boating trip together. Later, Otoko is called up to come to the hotel, as Keiko has barely survived a boating accident, while Taichiro is still missing. Otoko, Ōki and his wife meet at the unconscious Keiko's bed, where Fumiko blames Otoko that she used Keiko to kill their son. After Ōki has taken the desperate Fumiko out of the room, Keiko opens her eyes, tears running down her cheeks.

Cast

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 3 "美しさと哀しみと (With Beauty and Sorrow)" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "美しさと哀しみと (With Beauty and Sorrow)" (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  3. ↑ "篠田正浩 (Masahiro Shinoda)" (in Japanese). Kotobank. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  4. ↑ "Awards for With Beauty and Sorrow". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
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