Synopsis
Combining three prevalent genres of the day—the student comedy, the salaryman film, and the domestic drama—Ozu created this warmhearted family comedy, and demonstrated that he was truly coming into his own as a cinema craftsman. The setup is simple: Low wage–earning dad Okajima is depending on his bonus, and so are his wife and children, yet payday doesn’t exactly go as planned. Exquisite and economical, Ozu’s film alternates between brilliantly mounted comic sequences and heartrending working-class realities.
Cast
| Shinji Okajima | Tokihiko Okada |
| Tsuma Sugako | Emiko Yagumo |
| Sono Chounan | Hideo Sugawara |
| Sono Choujo | Hideko Takamine |
| Omura Sensei | Tatsuo Saito |
| Sensei no tusma | Chouko Iida |
Credits
| Director | Yasujiro Ozu |
| Screenplay | Komatsu Kitamura and Kogo Noda |
| Cinematography | Hideo Shigehara |
| Editing | Hideo Shigehara |
From the Current
Eclipse Series 10:
Silent Ozu—Three Family Comedies
by
Apr 21, 2008
There’s an irony to the fact that Japanese master filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu lived his life as a bachelor, for he made some of the world’s most insightful, lived-in, and emotionally authentic films about marriage and parenthood. Today he is primarily known for his late-career family portraits, such...
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