The Heart (1973 film)

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The Heart
Directed by Kaneto Shindō
Produced by
  • Kaneto Shindō
  • Kinshirō Kuzui
Written by
Starring
Music by Hikaru Hayashi
Cinematography Kiyomi Kuroda
Edited by Mitsuo Kondo
Distributed by Art Theatre Guild
Release dates
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  • 27 October 1973 (1973-10-27) (Japan)[1][2]
Running time
 90 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese

The Heart (心 Kokoro?), also titled Love Betrayed, is a 1973 Japanese drama film written and directed by Kaneto Shindō. It is based on the 1914 novel Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki.[1][2][3]

Cast

  • Noboru Matsuhashi as K
  • Kazunaga Tsuji as S
  • Nobuko Otowa as Mrs. M.
  • Anri as I-ko
  • Taiji Tonoyama as Father of S
  • Yasuo Arakawa as Boy
  • Sotomi Kotake as Girl

Literary source

Sōseki's novel has been adapted for film and television numerous times, the first time for cinema by Kon Ichikawa in 1955 as The Heart. For his version, writer/director Shindō moved the story's Meiji era setting to the 1970s[4] and put his focus only on the novel's third and final part, "Sensei to isho" ("Sensei's testament").[5]

Reception

While Louis Frédéric ranked The Heart among Shindō's important films,[6] Max Tessier criticised Shindō's "leaden directing" and "heavy-handed psychology".[7]

References

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