Tree Without Leaves

Tree Without Leaves
Japanese film poster
Directed byKaneto Shindō
Written byKaneto Shindō
Produced by
  • Masaya Endo
  • Setsuo Noto
  • Michiyoshi Takashima
Starring
CinematographyYoshiyuki Miyake
Edited byMitsuo Kondō
Music byHikaru Hayashi
Production
company
Release date
  • 15 November 1986 (1986-11-15) (Japan)[1][2]
Running time
105 minutes[1][2]
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Tree Without Leaves (落葉樹, Rakuyōju, lit. "Deciduous Tree") is a 1986 Japanese autobiographical[3] drama film written and directed by Kaneto Shindō.

Plot

Haru, an aged scriptwriter living alone in a house in the mountains, reminiscences his childhood in Hiroshima Prefecture.

The youngest child of four, Haru grows up as the son of a wealthy landowner. His passive father serves as a guarantor of someone else's debts, and slowly loses the family's fortune. Haru's older brother confronts the father for his inactivity, even threatening him with a knife during a violent dispute. Unable to change the father's mind, the brother leaves the house and joins the police force.

The old Haru is paid a visit by a woman who delivers food to his remote residence. She discovers his draft for a novel, asking if he stopped writing screenplays. Haru replies that he is too old and, being the last surviving member of the family, wants to keep his mother's memory alive.

The oldest sister of the young Haru accepts the marriage proposal of an émigré whom she does not love, on the condition that he pays 2,000 yen to help pay the family's debts. Still, neither her dowry nor the younger sister's leaving for the city can prevent the bankruptcy. After selling the estate, Haru and his parents move into the warehouse, while the main house is demolished to sell the usable parts.

Eventually, the mother dies. Back in the present, the old Haru hears his mother's voice, calling him for supper, a reminder of the opening scene.

Cast

  • Keiju Kobayashi – Old Haru
  • Nobuko Otowa – Mother
  • Ichiro Zaitsu – Father
  • Midori Sono – Older sister
  • Shiori Wakaba (as Shiori Suwano) – Younger sister
  • Shinsuke Kawamichi – Older brother
  • Kazuki Yamanaka – Young Haru
  • Taiji Tonoyama – Sakuzo
  • Meiko Kaji – Woman who comes to the mountain
  • Rokkō Toura – Bailiff

Background

Already in his 1984 film The Horizon (地平線), Shindō had chronicled the fate of his older sister, who married a Japanese-American émigré whom she followed to the U.S.[4]

The house in the mountains where the old Harun lives was director Shindō's actual mountain retreat, and is the same building as in A Last Note.[5]

Reception

Reviewer Ben Sachs of the Chicago Reader regarded Tree Without Leaves as a "clinically observant work about a terminally detached person", whose methods eventually "cumulate to powerful effect".[6]

References

  1. ^ a b "落葉樹 (Tree Without Leaves)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  2. ^ a b "落葉樹 (Tree Without Leaves)". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  3. ^ Shindo, Kaneto (2008). Ikite iru kagiri - Watashi no Rirekisho (in Japanese). ISBN 978-4-532-16661-8.
  4. ^ Shindo, Kaneto (2008). Ikite iru kagiri Watashi no Rirekisho (While I live: my resume). Nihon Keizai Shimbunsha. ISBN 978-4-532-16661-8.
  5. ^ Shindo, Kaneto (2012). Nagase, Hiroko (ed.). 100 sai no ryugi [The Centenarian's Way] (in Japanese). PHP. ISBN 978-4-569-80434-7.
  6. ^ Sachs, Ben. "Tree Without Leaves". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 24 July 2021.

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