The Cinema of Gosho Heinosuke: Laughter Through TearsThe elegant, graceful, and deeply humanistic cinema of Gosho Heinosuke has found its perfect English language explication in this equally elegant, graceful, and humanistic study by Arthur Nolletti. A director of wide ranging interests, Gosho was at his strongest in stories of ordinary Japanese life. Like Mizoguchi he had a particular strength and sensitivity to women's issues; like Ozu he was a delicate yet piercing commentator on middle class life.