Directed by Yasujiro Ozu • 1930 • Japan
In noirish darkness, a man commits a shocking robbery. But, as we soon learn, this seeming criminal mastermind is actually a sensitive everyman driven to desperation by the need to provide for his family. Unfolding over the course of one night, Yasujiro Ozu's That Night's Wife combines suspense with the emotional domestic drama one associates with the filmmaker's later masterpieces, and employs beautifully evocative camera work.
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Directed by Yasujiro Ozu • 1931 • Japan
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Tokyo Chorus
Directed by Yasujiro Ozu • 1931 • Japan
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