Directed by Mikio Naruse • 1931 • Japan
Starring Isamu Yamaguchi, Tomoko Naniwa, Seiichi Kato

Mikio Naruse’s earliest available film, FLUNKY, WORK HARD is the rare work by the director not to center around female characters. It is a charming, breezy short concerning an impoverished insurance salesman and his scrappy son, whose fisticuffs with the other boys of their village put his father’s livelihood in jeopardy