This is neo-neo-realism, descended from the Italian postwar films that took a nearly documentary look at a shattered world.
The title also happens to be the name of the first major postwar Hungarian film, directed by Geza Radvanyi, in 1947.
The British working class in postwar film.
The other patrons at Sunday lunch looked as though they'd been cast by Roberto Rossellini in a postwar neo-realist film.
Of the serious postwar films that have preceded "Platoon," none to me ever passed the test of being a true Vietnam war movie.
Most of his postwar films were in Trucolor during an era when almost all other B westerns were black-and-white.
In the U.S., he made other films before leaving for Europe, but his postwar films did not have the same power as the early works.
The film is considered amongst Ozu's darkest postwar films.
He co-wrote thirteen of Ozu's fifteen postwar films.
This movie was another of a series of postwar films that displayed a Japanese fear of the effects of atomic weapons.