I'd heard about this movie for years about impoverished Japanese trying to live on an island, but I was expecting the film itself to be more rustic. It looked like a commercial movie, well-made, wide screen black & white. They didn't pretend it was anything like a documentary. The parents carry large buckets of water up a steep hillside to water their crops.
The husband slugs his wife when she spills a bucket water, but they both just seem to be going about their work.
There's a tragedy in the movie that came about because of the remoteness of the island rather than poverty.
No dialog. Silent with music.
Available on the Criterion channel.
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