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'{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Infobox film | name = Shūu | native_name = 驟雨 | image = Shuu poster.jpg | caption = Japanese movie poster | director = [[Mikio Naruse]] | producer = {{ubl|[[Sanezumi Fujimoto]]|Keikichi Kakeshita}} | writer = {{ubl|[[Yōko Mizuki]]|[[Kunio Kishida]] (play)}} | starring = {{ubl|[[Setsuko Hara]]|[[Shūji Sano]]}} | music = [[Ichirō Saitō]] | cinematography = Masao Tamai | editing = Eiji Ooi | distributor = [[Toho]] | studio = Toho | released = {{Film date|1956|01|14}}<ref name="jmdb">{{cite web |url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1956/cf000270.htm |title=驟雨 (Sudden Rain) |website=Japanese Movie Database |language=Japanese |access-date=28 January 2021}}</ref><ref name="kinemajunpo">{{cite web |url=http://sp.kinenote.com/main/public/cinema/detail.aspx?cinema_id=24670 |title=驟雨 (Sudden Rain) |publisher=[[Kinema Junpo]] |language=ja |access-date=28 January 2021}}</ref> | runtime = 90 minutes<ref name="jmdb" /><ref name="kinemajunpo" /> | country = Japan | language = Japanese }} {{nihongo|'''''Sudden Rain'''''|驟雨|Shūu}} is a 1956 Japanese [[comedy-drama]] film directed by [[Mikio Naruse]]. It is based on a play by [[Kunio Kishida]].<ref name="Goble">{{cite book |last=Goble |first=Alan |date=1999 |title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film |location=London, Melbourne, Munich, New Providence |publisher=Bowker-Saur |isbn=1-85739-229-9}}</ref> ==Plot== The marriage of Fumiko and Ryōtarō Namiki has gone stale, with both of them constantly arguing about what to do on a day off, or her cutting out cooking recipes from the newspaper before he finished reading it. Their animosities are witnessed by Fumiko's niece Ayako, who pays a visit to complain about her own husband's inattentiveness, and their new neighbours, the Imasatos. When Ryōtarō's company announces the dismissal of some of their employees, a group of colleagues visits him at home and offers him to become their partner in a bar financed with their severance pay, with Fumiko serving the bar's guests. Ryōtarō throws them out and has an argument with Fumiko, declaring that he does not want his wife to take up a job. The couple contemplates a divorce and Ryōtarō's return to his hometown to work on his family's farm. The next morning, a children's balloon falls into their backyard, and Fumiko and Ryōtarō become engaged in a defiant ball throwing game, watched by the neighbours. ==Cast== * [[Setsuko Hara]] as Fumiko Namiki * [[Shūji Sano]] as Ryōtarō Namiki * [[Kyōko Kagawa]] as Ayako * [[Keiju Kobayashi]] as Mr. Imasato * [[Akemi Negishi]] as Mrs. Imasato * Chieko Nakakita as Mrs. Kurobayashi * [[Daisuke Katō]] as Kawakami ==Reception== Naruse biographer Catherine Russell called ''Sudden Rain'' an "extraordinarily bleak film", which nonetheless "offers a poetic treatment of a dismal situation".<ref name="Russell">{{cite book|last=Russell |first=Catherine |date=2008 |title=The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity |location=Durham and London |page=284 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=978-0-8223-4290-8}}</ref> [[Dan Sallitt]] saw the film's depiction of the marital conflict as "characteristically brutal and devastating" for Naruse, despite the "light-hearted formal play".<ref>{{cite web|last=Sallitt |first=Dan |title=Sudden Rain |url=https://mikionaruse.wordpress.com/sudden-rain/ |website=A Mikio Naruse Companion. Notes on the Extant Films, 1931-1967 |access-date=6 January 2022}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * {{IMDb title|0049756}} * {{cite web|url=https://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/Details?id=5959 |title=驟雨 (Sudden Rain) |publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]] 映画情報システム |access-date=28 January 2021}} {{Mikio Naruse}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sudden Rain}} [[Category:1956 films]] [[Category:1956 comedy-drama films]] [[Category:Japanese drama films]] [[Category:Japanese comedy films]] [[Category:Japanese black-and-white films]] [[Category:Japanese-language films]] [[Category:Japanese films based on plays]] [[Category:Films directed by Mikio Naruse]] [[Category:Toho films]] [[Category:Films produced by Sanezumi Fujimoto]] [[Category:Films scored by Ichirō Saitō]]'