Unending Advance
8.4
One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian problems of a middle-aged salaryman and his family segues into an idyllic dream of an implausible future. The surviving print, although incomplete, offers an essential glimpse into Uchida’s prewar period, when he was associated more with realist dramas than with the period films that dominated his work after the war.
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Cast
20 people
Isamu Kosugi
Also in
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Five Scouts
Hisako Takihana
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The Long Darkness
Tokyo March
Tomu Uchida
Yasujirô Ozu
Michio Midorikawa
Yukiko Todoroki
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Sanshiro Sugata
Yasutaro Yagi
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The King Kong That Appeared in Edo
Eiichi Yamada
Ureo Egawa
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Ultra Q
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
Akihiko Katayama
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Mother
The Lady of Musashino
Yoko Benisawa
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Late Spring
Crazed Fruit
Kisao Tobita
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Fires on the Plain
Tomu Uchida Director · Yasutaro Yagi Writer Yasujirō Ozu Story
First release November 3, 1937 · Produced in Japan · Original title 限りなき前進
Production
Nikkatsu Corporation
Production
Japan
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Languages
Original title
限りなき前進
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · November 3, 1937
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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