Country: Japan
Directed: Yazujiro Ozu
Very few Japanese movies depict the tremendous importance of social hierarchy in Japanese society so emphatic as in this early Ozu's silent masterpiece. This vivid , funny and tender satire is almost timeless: speaks a thousand words about the nowadays reality even if more than 80 years passed since the time that was produced. Ozu shows , ironically at times , how strong is the social determination, how powerful is the money, the hypocrisy of his society , how the children learn from very early to follow social norms of inequality. However, doesn't offer of course a revolutionary alternative: just observes and gives as always his sympathy and love to his characters
You can watch the full movie here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AOBzPXQyVk
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