Till We Meet Again

Saburo is a student. Keiko paints. The two meet during an air raid. It happens on a subway platform. Something grows between them. The war stands in front of everything. They know their time is short. Something gets in the way each time they try to meet. Saburo is going to the front. Before he leaves he calls at Keiko’s house. He cannot come inside. They look at each other through the glass, and the kiss stays on either side of it. It was named film of the year in Japan when it came out. Yoshiko Kuga, Eiji Okada, Osamu Takizawa and Haruko Sugimura appear in the hundred and eleven minute antiwar film, a Japanese production Tadashi Imai finished in 1950.