Record of a Tenement Gentleman Page #2

Synopsis: In post-war Japan, a man brings a lost boy to his tenement. No one wants to take the child for even one night; finally, a sour widow, Tané, does. The next day, complaining, she takes the boy to his neighborhood and finds his father has gone to Tokyo; it seems the boy has been abandoned. Tané wants to leave him there, but he follows her home. The next morning he disappears fearing a scolding after wetting the bed. Tané realizes she likes having him there, searches for him, and keeps him when he's found that night. Within days, she considers him her son.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Yasujirô Ozu
Production: Criterion Collection
 
IMDB:
7.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
Year:
1947
72 min
48 Views


Don't fight us

Everyone's asking you

So, that's settled

It's all settled, yes

Well, then, I guess I have to

Thank you

That's the final decision

Can I serve now?

Yes, bring it out

This is great!

You've prepared so much

This is not much but

Hey, Heichan, come here!

Congratulations, and thank you!

Heichan, you're great. He's a lucky boy

You've got to be good or

luck won't come to you

Luck will fall on a pure minded person

Is that so?

That's right. You can't win

if you wanted 2000 yen

That's why kids win

Is that so?

You try, you won't win

If I can't, you won't either

That's why I don't do it

But I go to the race track

It depends on horses

Please, everyone

Yes, let's start

I don't see any tea leaves

This is the real sake!

This is good. Let's drink and have fun

Tashiro, I hear you're good at

peep story telling

Well

Peep?

You know, this

One can't judge people by the surface

I thought you were decent!

What're you trying to say?

Remember the peep show at fairs?

Ah, you mean that!

I used to love it so much that

I got trachome

Not trachome, it's trachoma

Tashiro, sing it

Don't bring it up now

Sing it, Tashiro. Please

That's something I must see

Come on, do it

Come one, Tashiro, I beg you

'"Come and see it, the show is open'"

Well, then

It happened in Tokyo

a naval ensign in the big city...

fell deeply in love with

an army general's daughter

The first child of Viscount Kataoka

Her name was Namiko

oh, what a beauty

She married the ensign

Baron Takeo Kawashima

They honeymooned at Ikaho

And when tired of the game

they returned to Tokyo

As a military man, the time

to go to war had come

He hurried to Zushi to join his crew

As he was going aboard

Namiko waved from shore

Crying, she shouted

'"Come home as soon as you can! '"

And he looked at the pale moon

above the pine trees

What a tragedy of Hototogisu

Very good!

You sing it well

It was great

Weren't you a professional?

Oh, no

Very well done, wonderful

You embarrass me

It's true. Better than fortune telling

Isn't there secondhand peep-show

gear for sale?

That's right, we haven't seen one

for a long time

A meeting like tonight

I can have it every night

Good-night

Good-night

Good-night

Good-night, I had fun

Tashiro, do that again soon

Well, good-bye

Good-bye

Are you still up?

Go to bed, go on

Afraid of wetting the bed

so you can't sleep?

If you do it again, I'll throw you out

Remember that, alright?

Yes

Then go to sleep, I'll wake you up

during the night

Good-night, grandma

Auntie

Auntie, good-night

Your father's really hardhearted

A carpenter nowadays

can find a job anywhere

To feed a kid won't take much

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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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