She and He (1963 film)

She and He (彼女と彼, Kanojo to kare) is a 1963 Japanese drama film directed by Susumu Hani. It was entered into the 14th Berlin International Film Festival where Sachiko Hidari won the Silver Bear for Best Actress award.^[1]

She and He
Poster for She and He.
Directed by	Susumu Hani
Written by	Susumu Hani Kunio Shimizu
Produced by	Teizô Koguchi Masayuki Nakajima
Starring	Sachiko Hidari Eiji Okada
Cinematography	Juichi Nagano
Edited by	Noriaki Tsuchimoto
Music by	Tōru Takemitsu
Release date	18 October 1963 (1963-10-18)
Running time	109 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Plot

A middle-class woman in Tokyo, Naoko Ishikawa (Sachiko Hidari) lives with her husband in a shining new apartment building on a hill overlooking a slum. As her husband Eiichi (Eiji Okada) becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to expand her own life even as her husband's life shrinks in scope and intimacy. She loses her sense of security when she becomes acquainted with poverty in her neighborhood. She finds herself strangely drawn to a rag-picker, Ikona (Kikuji Yamashita) who lives down below in a tin shack with a blind child and a dog, and the sheltering comforts of her middle-class existence inexorably fall away.

Cast

• Sachiko Hidari - Naoko Ishikawa
• Kikuji Yamashita - Ikona
• Eiji Okada - Eiichi Ishikawa
• Akio Hasegawa - Laundry Boy
• Yoshimi Hiramatsu - Nakano
• Setsuko Horikoshi - Old lady of book store
• Takanobu Hozumi - Doctor
• Hiromi Ichida - Nurse
• Mariko Igarashi - Blind girl
• Hiro Kasai - Ghetto guy
• Shûji Kawabe - Detective
• Toshie Kimura - Sasaki
• Masakazu Kuwayama - Laundry owner
• Toshio Matsumoto - Laundry man
• Yukio Ninagawa - Balloon guy
• Kazuya Oguri
• Miyoko Takahashi - Ghetto woman

Awards

In 1964, Sachiko Hidari also won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 14th Berlin International Film Festival for her film The Insect Woman directed by Shohei Imamura. The film was nominated for Golden Bear, but won OCIC Award and Youth Film Award for best feature film. In Japan, Hidari won Best Actress at Blue Ribbon Award, Mainichi Film Award and Kinema Junpo Award.^[2]