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Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese film written and directed by Yasujiro Ozu

Yasujiro Ozu

was a prominent Japanese film director and script writer. He is known for his distinctive technical style, developed during the silent era. Marriage and family, especially the relationships between the generations, are among the most persistent themes in his body of work...

 in 1947. The film was Ozu's first after World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

and his longest production drought of five years.

Plot

A man finds a lost boy (Hohi Aoki) in a war-torn village and brings him to his tenement. He tries to find someone to take care for him but no-one accepts the responsibility. The child eventually ends up with a sour widow Tané (Chouko Iida), despite her refusal. Their relationship doesn't develop well as Tané has no interest in being a mother again. After the boy disappears Tané realizes that she likes having him around after all.

External links

• The Record of a Tenement Gentleman at Senses of Cinema