Apart From You
Live music by Guenter Buchwald
The lives of geishas became a recurring theme for Mikio Naruse, whose sensitive portrayals of women on the margins elevated him to the stature of fellow Japanese directors Ozu and Kurosawa. Apart from You tells the story of an aging geisha struggling to support her sullen teenage son and a young colleague.
Live Music by Guenter Buchwald
Conductor, composer, pianist, and violinist Guenter Buchwald is a pioneer of the renaissance in silent film music. He has accompanied silent films for thirty-eight years with a repertoire of more than three thousand titles and has conducted orchestras worldwide from Iceland to Romania, Tokyo to Zurich. In great demand as a composer, he has scored silent films as varied as Suzuki and Ota’s What Made Her Do It?, René Clair’s Paris qui dort, Chaplin’s Pawn Shop, and Murnau’s Nosferatu. A soloist known for his virtuoso improvisation, he has appeared regularly at film festivals in Berlin, Bonn, Bologna, Zurich, Pordenone, and Seattle. He is a lecturer at the Film Science Institute at the University of Zurich and resident conductor of the Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra for Silent Film in Concert. He is cofounder of the Silent Movie Music Company and is musical director of Bristol’s Slapstick Silent Film Festival in England.
Image credit: Pamela Gentile
Details
Director
Mikio Naruse
Country
Japan
Year
1933
Cast
Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Akio Isono, Sumiko Mizukubo
Original Language Title
Kimi to Wakarete
Runtime
72 min
Print Source
National Film Archive of Japan
Format
35mm