Bikes Seeking For the Spring To Come

(video by SHUESIK)

I am so sorry this video is no longer available! It was puting together two famous bike scenes from two Japanese movies made in 1949 (Late Spring of Yasujiro Ozu and The Green Mountains of Tadashi Imai). Setsuko Hara is the main personage in both. The author of the video uses as musical background the score of the second movie.

The mood in the two scenes is slightly different. In Last Spring, the two are very good friends and maybe love each other, without being aware. It would be an impossible love: he is engaged to another girl and about to get married. But, in the moment they ride their bicycles, their eyes express the enthusiasm, the happiness of their true feelings that they don't dare to recognize. In The Green Mountains everybody's free for love. So while in Late Spring the mood is discreetly sad, the second movie is full of optimism and joy.

Well, I can give you a video with the scene from The Green Mountains:

(video by az8601)

Though different in mood, the two scenes share the same desire for love, and also in both scenes the bikes seem to know more than the people who ride them: it's like Bike Race Seeking For the Spring To Come.

The Green Mountains' poster
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(http://www.rmvbsky.com/default.aspx?order=&key=&page=436)

(Yasujiro Ozu and Setsuko Hara)