Muddy River
(Doro no Kawa)
(35mm / 105 min / Black & White / Stereo/2K DCP)
Producer : Motoyasu KIMURA / Director: Kohei Oguri / Screen Play: Takako SHIGEMORI / Cinematographer : Shohei ANDHO / Art Direction: Akira NIATOH © 1981 / 2020 (2K remaster) / Oguri Office
INTRODUCTIONA monochrome masterpiece of poetic realism. The stunning directorial debut of Kohei Oguri, Muddy River is a haunting meditation on the loss of innocence in 1956 Osaka. An Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, this globally revered work captures the fragile beauty and unyielding sorrows of childhood in a city still scarred by the aftermath of war.
STORY
Nine-year-old Nobuo, who lives at his family’s riverside restaurant, forms an unspoken bond with Kiichi, a boy living on a dilapidated houseboat. However, the "muddy river" between them reflects the harsh realities of poverty and the "karma" of the adult world. As Nobuo glimpses the desperate secrets Kiichi’s family keeps to survive, his childhood simplicity dissolves into a universal tragedy of the human condition.