Kaze no naka no kodomo

Jun Yokoyama and his brother are two of the leaders of the local gang of boys. However, when their father, Reikichi Kawamura, is accused of embezzlement and arrested, their position changes. Their uncle, Takeshi Sakamoto, takes Jun to his home, but he doesn't play well with the other children, gets into scrapes, and wants to return home.

Hiroshi Shimizu's movie about youngsters dealing with stress is sustained through the naturalistic acting on young Jun. The director had a flair for directing kds, and the two brothers cavorting together, or the scene when Jun, in disgrace, tries to forget himself in his uncle's courtyard, seem to me just like the way children, who live in their own world, behave. In fact, it reminds me of the recent ROMA by Alfonso Cuarón, except that while the newer movie filters itself through the adult artist's sensibilities, Shimizu's movie observes the world and lets the audience enter unreservedly into his viewpoint.