Name: Gendai-jin
Genre: Drama
Released: 1952-09-03
Duration: 1 h 52 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Ryô Ikebe, Isuzu Yamada, Sō Yamamura

Japanese cinema is celebrated for its refined minimalist dramas and avant-garde experimentation; it also introduced popular genres like jidaigeki (samurai epics), kaiju, and anime. Across both high art and mass entertainment, it often explores morality, impermanence, and the pressures of modern life.

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The drama genre is a broad category that features stories portraying human experiences, emotions, conflicts, and relationships in a realistic and emotionally impactful way. Dramas delve into the complexities of human life, often exploring themes of love, loss, morality, societal issues, personal growth, with the aim to evoke an emotional response from the audience by presenting relatable and thought-provoking stories.

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In post-war Japan, a bureaucrat in the land ministry self-destructively spirals into squalor.

Ryô Ikebe, Toshiko Kobayashi, Isuzu Yamada, and Sō Yamamura in Gendai-jin (1952)

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Ryô Ikebe and Isuzu Yamada in Gendai-jin (1952)

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