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Daniela
27Jan12
Read, or should I say "watched," like 1920s Soviet agitprop. The anti-Western/anti-Capitalism force is strong in this one. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing . . . but it was just odd to have a Japanese film remind me so much of the USSR (a la Pudovkin's Mother . . . ). Besides that, it was worth a watch at least. Interesting to see how Ozu's style has changed somewhat, and in many ways stayed the same.
Francisco R.
14Jan12
Beautifully paced, meditatingly simple and powerful, a brilliant transition to the sound era from Ozu.
David Huxley
8Aug11
The same formula that Ozu would use for the next 25 years is present in this, his first sound film: the low-angle static camera shots, the establishing shots, and especially, his focus on contemporary Japanese family life. Few filmgoers would realize the twenty year gap between this and "Early Spring" especially if they watch the new Criterion transfer. Contrast with Mizoguchi's "Osaka Elegy" released the same year.
trolley freak
4Aug11
Ozu's first talkie is this exceptionally moving story focusing on the self-sacrifice of a mother, prepared to sell her home to fund her son's move away to Tokyo in order to continue his education and to escape the poverty of their rural home town. Years later, she pays a visit and discovers him living in poverty and barely scraping a living for his wife and son. Choko Iida is brilliant as the disappointed mother.....
Rohit Apte
29Jul11
The melancholy is slightly overdone but still an excellent film from Ozu that makes use of techniques that he would use very successfully in the future.
AntioneOscar69
16Mar11
An archetypal Ozu film and one of his leanest and most emotionally affecting.
Erik Villasenor
14Nov10
My first Ozu film and it didn't disapoint. What a moving film, it's strange how ozu can make such emotional sequences without any camera movement. From this film alone you can see how Ozu is a master of composition. Can't wait to see there was a father.
Zac Zellers
2Aug10
I bought this movie but have been holding off on watching it because it seems like it will really 'hit home' and move me a lot.
Brian Courtney
16Jul10
I hate that criterion was unable to get rid of all the errors in the film quality and even feel worse that so many Ozu films will never be seen.
Daniela and Mysterious F. like this
David Ehrenstein
26Aug09
A deeply moving and extremely subtle social protest film -- a genre in which Ozu was a master. The notion that he was a middle-class conformist is rendered for the foolishness that it is by viewing this masterpeice.
