Yearning

Yearning (乱れる, 1964) — watch online on iFILM, a Japanese drama directed by Mikio Naruse and starring Hideko Takamine. War widow Reiko rebuilt the family grocery store from the rubble and has run it alone for years, with no thought of remarrying.

Now two things arrive at once. A new supermarket nearby is undercutting the business, and her late husband's family want to convert the shop and cut her out. At the same time, a younger man enters her life carrying feelings she can neither accept nor send away. Naruse and Takamine made sixteen films together; this is one of their most controlled — a film that moves entirely through what the characters don't say. Stream "Yearning" (1964) online on iFILM.