Apart From You (君と別れて, Kimi to wakarete) is a 1933 Japanese silent drama film written and directed by Mikio Naruse.
A young colleague of Kikue, Terugiku, whom Yoshio feels close to like a sister, invites him to her parents' home in a fishermen's village.
After her recovery, Terugiku leaves the city, hinting at having taken up a profitable occupation which she loathes, only to save her sister Misako from the same fate.
[2] Naruse biographer Catherine Russell emphasised the "highly stylized editing" and "complex series of camera movements" of certain scenes, and the film's "pragmatic view of the geisha world".
[3] Keith Uhlich of Slant Magazine compared the film's "superficial stylistic flourishes" to Naruse's previous film No Blood Relation, adding that "it is nonetheless a much more focused and sustained work, bearing some evidence—via several beautifully visualized superimpositions—of the director's developing interest in character psychology.