Noriko is patient, generous and affectionate and she has the sweetest smile in all of cinema. Ozu wants to bring the best out of his audience by making us want to be like Noriko.

A femme fatale trapped in the body of a 12 yr old girl and a 12 yr old boy trapped in the body of a Mafia hitman. These are the platonic lovers in Luc Besson's modern fairytale of New York - a moving and most unlikely love story as you will ever see.