Director: Yasuzo Masumura
Country: Japan
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Movement: Japanese New Wave
Kisses, also titled The Kiss, is a 1957 Japanese drama film directed by Yasuzō Masumura, based on a novel by Matsutarō Kawaguchi. It was Masumura's debut as a director and is regarded as a precursor of the Japanese New Wave. Kinichi and Akiko meet at a prison in Tokyo, where their fathers are detained. Taking a liking to each other, they spend the day together, driving around on a borrowed motorcycle. Unable to pay both the bail bond for her father and her mother's hospital bill, Akiko gives in to the persistent courting of Osawa, asking him to loan her the needed money in return.
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