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Hyde Park Picture House
4th November • 3.15pm

Ozu's penultimate film is an exceptional example of his gently intimate and pared down style and his compassionate devotion to recurring themes of traditional family values threatened by postwar progress. The Kohaya ka wa family runs a sake business and are consumed with marriage plans for two daughters. Meanwhile the head of the family, Manbei, pursues an affair and upsets his daughter Fu m i ko. When Manbei has a sudden heart attack, recriminations are set aside as the family rally round the ailing patriarch but he soon resumes his philandering ways.

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