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Synopsis: A troupe of actors comes to town, short on funds and bedeviled by bad weather, so they can't put on shows. Kihachi is the troupe's leader. He steals off every day to visit Otsune (an ex-lover) and their son, Shinkichi, who believes his father is a long-dead civil servant. Kihachi has been paying Shinkichi's tuition, and he's now at university. Kihachi's lover, Otaka, the troupe's lead actress, learns Kihachi's secret and plots to ruin Shinkichi and humiliate Kihachi: she offers money to Otoki, the troupe's ingénue, to seduce Shinkichi. Soon the boy is head over heels, and Otoki finds herself with feelings for him. Can this end well or is tragedy at hand?
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Yasujirô Ozu
Production: Criterion Collection
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
7.9
NOT RATED
Year:
1934
86 min
119 Views


Otoki isn't around.

She goes out a lot these days.

Where does she go, anyway?

We're going to have to part soon.

What will we be doing

this time next year?

But let's not think

about a silly thing like that.

Why don't we tell

my mother about us?

I'm sure she'll help us.

I'm not the girl you think.

I'm not worthy of a man like you.

I tried to make

a fool of you at first.

It started that way, but...

Never mind how it started.

Don't get mixed up

with a traveling player like me.

He's been out every night this week.

I'm going to have to leave soon.

I want to see him

as often as I can.

You must be careful.

About that woman.

Her? I have no excuse.

Don't take it wrong. I'm too old

to be jealous. I'd be embarrassed.

It'd be awful if she told

Shinkichi the truth.

Where the hell have you been?

What's that boy to you?

Is it for money?

Is that what you think?

I wouldn't blame you.

Otaka, too,

offered me money at first.

What did she want?

She wanted me to seduce him.

But now it's not for money.

I love him.

I want Otaka here.

I'll speak with you later.

You sent for me?

What do you want?

What did you plan

to do with my son?

Who cares about your son?

He's cheap, like you,

playing around with actresses.

Are you sorry?

I hope you'll be very sorry.

The world is like a lottery.

You take your ups and your downs.

Let's make up, please?

This makes us even, you see.

Just think how I feel.

Where's Otoki?

Looks like she just stepped out.

Is Shinkichi in?

You mean you didn't send for him?

He just went out

with that girl from your troupe.

This is terrible.

I'm afraid I've let Shinkichi

ruin his future.

We'll give you this much

for everything.

All right.

It's enough to pay them off.

We've been together

for a long time, Master.

Where will you go, Kichi?

To Ueda.

I have family there.

I'll go back to working

at the butcher's shop.

Get a steady job.

That's the best.

I'm sick of show business.

It's our last night.

Go on, make up with Otaka.

Let's enjoy ourselves

before we break up.

Sing, will you, Otaka?

My troupe's finally disbanded.

No word from Shinkichi yet?

Like father, like son.

So fast with the girls.

I'm finished this time.

I'll fix you a drink.

No sake for me.

Then you won't travel anymore?

You can stay as long as you like.

Shinkichi is old enough to know by now.

He'll understand.

He'll be back sometime or other.

Let's live together like a family.

It isn't good

to be alone all the time.

Let's have a drink.

Thank you for everything.

When did you get back?

Where have you been?

Why act like nothing's happened?

Forgive me, Master.

She apologized.

Why hit her?

You're to blame, too.

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Tadao Ikeda

Tadao Ikeda (池田忠雄, Ikeda Tadao) (5 February 1905 - 5 May 1964) was a Japanese screenwriter and film director. After graduating from Waseda University, he joined the Shochiku studio and came to prominence writing screenplays for such directors as Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse, Kōzaburō Yoshimura, and Yasujirō Shimazu. He also directed a few films. more…

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