 It also received 10 votes total in the British Film Institute's 2012 "Sight & Sound" critics' and directors' polls.Adrian Martin, editor of on-line film journal "Rouge", has remarked upon Naruse's "cinema of walking".Bertrand Tavernier, speaking of Naruse's "Sound of the Mountain", described how the director minutely describes each journey and that "such comings and goings represent uncertain yet reassuring transitions