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Special Presentation

Farewell to Spring

+ recorded intro by Chisato Inagaki, film curator at Keisuke Kinoshita Memorial Museum

Keisuke Kinoshita’s achingly beautiful film is about the intense feelings between five young men who return to their Aizu hometown.

  • Director

    Keisuke Kinoshita

  • With

    Keiji Sada, Ineko Arima

  • Japan 1959. 102min

  • 35mm

  • English subtitles

Five young men reunite one spring in their Aizu hometown, but their happy reminiscences about childhood soon give way to conflict and betrayal. Focusing on intense feelings between men, Keisuke Kinoshita’s achingly beautiful film provokes questions about what a queer film might have looked like in 1950s Japan, offering a highly critical perspective on heterosexual norms and gendered traditions.

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