Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947)

Synopsis: Master director Yasujiro Ozu's warm yet unsettling tale of daily life in a small Japanese town relates the charming story of a gruff, stubborn widow who quite reluctantly takes in a stray orphan,... Master director Yasujiro Ozu's warm yet unsettling tale of daily life in a small Japanese town relates the charming story of a gruff, stubborn widow who quite reluctantly takes in a stray orphan, abandoned by his poverty stricken carpenter father. Her worst fears are realized, almost immediately, when the stone-faced boy turns out to be a habitual bedwetter. Over time however, both she and her eccentric tenement neighbors begin to love the quiet little boy and all find that he has changed their lives irrevocably. Comic and sentimental elements are complimented and accentuated by Ozu's typical underlying themes of loss and the dissolution of the Japanese family. [More]

Starring: Choko Iida, Hohi Aoki, Eitarô Ozawa, Chishu Ryu

Starring: Choko Iida, Hohi Aoki, Eitarô Ozawa, Chishu Ryu

Director: Yasujiro Ozu

Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Screenwriter: Yasujiro Ozu, Tadao Ikeda
Producer: Kozu Kubo

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