Sumida River

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films often with big stars like Hasegawa or Bando Sumidagawa named after the river that runs through Tokyo is also a period film but thematically a modern one All the themes that you associate with the normal Shochiku womens films set in the present day are in this film just in a different context love the planning of a marriage career family relations and societal melancholy There is no action or swordplay