Somewhere Under the Broad Sky

Knowing that this was both a film by Kobayashi and in his melodrama period, I kept expecting this film to turn in much darker directions than it ever did. Instead of getting a bit of misery wrapped in irony that came to define the ending of Three Loves, I got something much more hopeful and straightforward. It’s a fine little film in that regard, about a family growing together and apart at the same time, and it’s interesting to note that even with the somewhat nice and almost comparatively ...