Beautiful Days

1955, 2h -

BEAUTIFUL DAYS (1955, aka Uruwashiki Saigetsu) was one of a series of mainstream dramas and romances made by Kobayashi after his flirtation with independent film making on ROOM WITH THICK WALLS. A romantic drama, it put him back in the success column as a filmmaker, working in the popular realm of his mentor Keisuke Kinoshita, but now without the input of the latter or his relatives; and it also brought Kobayashi together with screenwriter Zenzo Matsuyama, with whom he would enjoy a rich creative partnership (culminating with THE HUMAN CONDITION I, II, and III) over the next few years, as he developed his own style and reputation within the studio system. Show more

"Beautiful Days" — movie produced in Japan and released in 1955. It has a good rating on IMDb: 6.9 stars out of 10. It is a feature-length film with a runtime of 2h. "Beautiful Days" is currently available to stream on The Criterion Channel. Click on a playlink to watch it now!