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By dope fiend willy on February 19, 2009

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(1957) Tokyo Twilight
This is the darkest film that I’ve yet seen from Ozu, and I don’t think there’ll be another as dark, for that would be quite a feat. In this film, a misguided young girl falls for a rounder, and she gets pregnant. When she talks to him about it, he doesn’t seem too concerned, but he has an appointment and tells her to meet him at a restaraunt the next day to talk about it. he never shows, and she takes this as his final answer as to how he feels about the pregnancy, so she decides definitely to terminate it(something she had been considering, and had even borrowed the money for). Afterward, Akiko becomes even more depressed, and then learns that her mother is not only alive, but also that her father is likely not her father.

Dark Ozu.