A fun, but uncharacteristically unsubtle and disappointingly didactic, film from the Japanese master.
This perfectly executed and moving Ozu film was the first he made post-Second World War, and his first since There Was A Father five years earlier. The excellent character actress Choko Iida is brilliant again as the curmudgeonly woman reluctantly looking after a lost boy. At first she tries to ged rid of him at every opportunity but over time her icy heart is slowly melted and she decides she'd like to keep him.....
Enamouring and fun! Like watching a Miyazaki-film but with live-action and with the Ozu-way of cinematic expression.