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Christopher Small
6Sep11
A great movie full of guilty gestures and faces. The frequent dolly's and close-ups are pretty sublime as well. As for the narrative elements and the mise en scene, put it this way: never has Tokyo looked so much like Chicago or Lang's Berlin.
trolley freak
6Jul11
In this early silent melodrama from master director Yasujiro Ozu, a policeman follows a robber back to his apartment where his wife is attending their sick daughter. The wife pulls a gun and the policeman is held hostage. Most of the film takes place in this one location and over the course of the night the policeman becomes sympathetic to the robber's plight and is even prepared to let him escape in the morning.....
