Compared to works such as Tokyo Story and Early Summer, this is a much more light-hearted offering from Ozu. His usual themes of generational differences, parent-child relations, and parent-child expectations are all present here but in a more comedic fashion. I wouldn’t recommend this to someone first experiencing Ozu (for that, I would suggest Tokyo Story and Floating Weeds) but for anyone who has become a fan of his movies – and his style for that matter – will do no wrong in checking this one out.