Spring Cleaning
Kelly Reichardt and Kinuyo Tanaka
Watching
Ornamental Hairpin (1941)
I’ve been watching a lot of Japanese movies, mostly because there’s no shortage of them to go around.1 This one by Hiroshi Shimizu, blissfully only 70 minutes long, is set at a hot springs in the mountains that attracts people of all ages seeking to get away from the city for a while2. One of the visitors, the strapping ba…