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Yasuzo Masumura's first feature (1957) is a teenage love story, most of it devoted to an impromptu, daylong date between the couple, which encompasses a borrowed motorcycle, a bicycle race, an afternoon on the beach, and an evening of dining and dancing. (Prior to that, they “meet cute” while visiting their respective fathers in prison.) She's an artist's model struggling silently with the possibility of becoming a prostitute to help her parents, and as in many of his films, Masumura doesn't skimp the subtlety of the ethical questions involved. Kisses slightly preceded the so-called Japanese new wave and deeply influenced Nagisa Oshima; it's still fresh and appealing, with exciting camera work, though apart from its hero it's less cantankerous than many of Masumura's features.
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