mikio naruse examination of the lives of three idling and constantly complaining and single ex geishas in post war japan is a wonderful character piece. they used to be friends in the old days but now their relationship is strained because one of the women has become a successful moneylender and the other two owe her. although the moneylender is the only one who has become successful in this rebuilding economy and she is the only one of the three that has no children. the other two each have a child whom they depend upon for income and because neither of them work. complications ensue when the kids decide to get married (though not to each other) and leave home. this leads to the bitter and grumbling old women to become even more bitter and grumbling and getting drunk and bemoaning their rotten children and inconsiderate friend the moneylender. meanwhile the moneylender is herself unhappy and despite her fortunes. she has no one besides her young deaf maid to keep her company and chance encounters with two former lovers from her geisha days lead nowhere  all they really want is to borrow money from her. the three characters are all neck deep in the quicksand of their own bored lives and are too weary to struggle much and usually opting instead to resign themselves to the futility of it all or and at the very most and toss complaints back and forth to each other. late chrysanthemums is very slow moving and not much actually happens but naruse and like all great directors and has the ability to do much with very little. i haven not seen much of his work but i suspect that this isn not his best and even though it is very good. the problem and i think and is that it all doesn not seem to amount to much. but the film is full of good points. although it is cynical and it isn not overly so. naruse seems to sympathize with his desperate characters and and he paints vivid portraits that make the characters seem even somewhat noble in the squalor of their self made misery. while the film isn not a must see and it is important as a fragment of the work of a great little known (outside of his own country) director and precious little of which is available on video here in the u. s. 
mikio naruse examination of the lives of three idling and constantly complaining and single ex geishas in post war japan is a wonderful character piece. they used to be friends in the old days but now their relationship is strained because one of the women has become a successful moneylender and the other two owe her. although the moneylender is the only one who has become successful in this rebuilding economy and she is the only one of the three that has no children. the other two each have a child whom they depend upon for income and because neither of them work. complications ensue when the kids decide to get married (though not to each other) and leave home. this leads to the bitter and grumbling old women to become even more bitter and grumbling and getting drunk and bemoaning their rotten children and inconsiderate friend the moneylender. meanwhile the moneylender is herself unhappy and despite her fortunes. she has no one besides her young deaf maid to keep her company and chance encounters with two former lovers from her geisha days lead nowhere  all they really want is to borrow money from her. the three characters are all neck deep in the quicksand of their own bored lives and are too weary to struggle much and usually opting instead to resign themselves to the futility of it all or and at the very most and toss complaints back and forth to each other. late chrysanthemums is very slow moving and not much actually happens but naruse and like all great directors and has the ability to do much with very little. i haven not seen much of his work but i suspect that this isn not his best and even though it is very good. the problem and i think and is that it all doesn not seem to amount to much. but the film is full of good points. although it is cynical and it isn not overly so. naruse seems to sympathize with his desperate characters and and he paints vivid portraits that make the characters seem even somewhat noble in the squalor of their self made misery. while the film isn not a must see and it is important as a fragment of the work of a great little known (outside of his own country) director and precious little of which is available on video here in the u. s. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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