Sincerity

SINCERITY (aka MAGOKORO) was Masaki Kobayashi’s second film as a directo—but as with his first, YOUTH OF THE SON, it is something of a hybrid work, influenced heavily by his longtime mentor Keisuke Kinoshita, who wrote the screenplay. The resulting film is a deeply passionate and sentimental drama about a young student (Akira Inshihama) who falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to an invalid girl (Keiko Awaji) whom he can only see from afar.

Starring Keiko Awaji, Chieko Higashiyama, Akira Ishihama