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Mr. Hayashi
Mr. Hayashi

Mr. Hayashi

5.3/10

0hr 03mins

Country:US

1961

Documentary
Spoken Languages: English

Overview:

Bruce Baillie's Mr. Hayashi might be thought of as a putative East Coast story transformed by a West Coast sensibility. The narrative, slight as it is, mounts a social critique of sorts, involving the difficulty the title character, a Japanese gardener, has finding work that pays adequately. But the beauty of Baillie's black-and-white photography, the misty lusciousness of the landscapes he chooses to photograph, and the powerful silence of Mr. Hayashi's figure within them make the viewer forget all about economics and ethnicity. The shots remind us of Sung scrolls of fields and mountain peaks, where the human figure is dwarfed in the middle distance. Rather than a study of unemployment, the film becomes a study of nested layers of stillness and serenity.

Budget

$0.00

Production companies

Genre

Documentary

Runtime

0hr 03mins

Rating

5.3/10

Release Date

1961-01-01

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