Club Protocol Release: Yoji Yamada's The Little House 2014 BDrip to Mp4 Jap Engl sub HAnne

The Little House - Chiisai Ouchi 2014 Dir Yoji Yamada - Japanese English soft code subs 628x368 (Very good resolution on my 14" Mac)
The film was in competition for the Golden Bear at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival, where actress Haru Kuroki won the Silver Bear for Best Actress.
(While it's a sentimental film of a type some people don't appreciate, I give it a 9/10. It's enjoyable, well acted and from my point of view well directed)
Similar in tone to Yoji Yamada's much loved SAMURAI TRILOGY - please find my upload of that here http://www.demonoid.pw/files/details/3202228/73682048/(Ipad or small pc screen version) the story is told in retrospect from the point of view of a very aged woman as she tries to write and relate to her grandson the story of her life.
Taki (Haru Kuroki) comes from northern Japan to Tokyo to join the Hirai household as a housekeeper. As with Yamada's Meiji Period Samurai's, who do not fit the usual mold Westerners expect, the characters are living through a period of great political and social change; many questions are raised that speak to the current Japanese re-evaluation of the wars years and how it is always the ordinary people who pay the biggest cost of any war.
The tale begins in the pre-war days when the newly prosperous middle classes built houses out in the suburbs, blending Japanese and Western style furnishings and fashions. The Hirais have a very nice little house with a red roof situated on a small hill. They are comfortable but not wealthy, and try to project the sense that they are perhaps a bit more important than they really are. Taki quickly fits in and bonds quickly with Tokiko, the young wife and mother (Takako Matsu). She loves the house and family, but their quiet respectable lives changes when Itakura (Hidetaka Yoshioka), a young employee at husband's company, comes to visit. Tokiko is immediately attracted to him – he's handsome, cultured, artistic and a bit sickly – hitting all the right buttons for Tokiko. The feeling turns mutual and this is where the film compares to Remains of the Day. Though the division between master and servant isn't as distinct in Japan, the housekeeper is still an employee, and the employee has to keep her own feelings to herself. Kuroki won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for her performance as Kuroki beautifully portrayed Taki's struggle when her idea of the 'perfect world' begins to crumble. It is a too common Japanese theme: put on a brave front and never show your struggles. But in this film it's nicely presented.

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