Three Japanese masterpieces (Until We Meet Again; Happiness of Us Alone; She Was Like A Wild Chrysanthemum) on Monday Morning Diary (April 4)

Capture from Tadashi Imai’s 1950 “Until We Meet Again”

Capture from 1962’s “Happiness of Us Alone”

Capture from Kinoshita’s 1955 “She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum”

 

by Sam Juliano

I have gone thorough a difficult week as a result of yet another visit from my perennial nemesis, the kidney stones.  Yes it is hard to believe I haven’t yet mastered a way to keep them at bay, but I can attribute this to my failure to drink enough water.  All week I suffered discomfort, but I caught a break when I passed the culprit stone on Sunday unexpectedly after some intense pain and nausea, allowing me to avert the planned Wednesday shock wave procedure.  Still, there is a stone within the kidney around the same size that I’d be smart to have blasted within the next month or so if I want to avoid a recurrence of what I just experienced.

As a result of all this discomfort, launched by my seven hour stay in a hospital emergency room, I have been unable to do much on the movie front, or on any front for that matter.  I rallied after passing the stone to take in three Japanese masterpieces on a rare online site, used often by Allan for films that have yet to see the light of day on DVD.

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