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Komiya is a good-natured professor of medicine at a Tokyo university, who lives in a childless marriage with his strict wife Tokiko. When his niece from Osaka, Setsuko, comes for a visit, Tokiko criticises her liberated manners, including her smoking in public, which annoys Setsuko.
Jan 8, 2023 · What Did the Lady Forget? (淑女は何を忘れたか, Shukujo wa nani wo wasureta ka) is a 1937 Japanese comedy-drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. Plot Komiya is a good-natured professor of ...
- 71 min
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- NipponKino
May 4, 1990 · With Sumiko Kurishima, Tatsuo Saitô, Michiko Kuwano, Shûji Sano. An affluent medical professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Setsuko is a liberated woman who does what she wants, including smoking, even though she is a minor.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Yasujirô Ozu
- 1990-05-04
Synopsis. A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a liberated woman who does whatever she wants, including smoking. She even convinces Koyima to take her to a geisha house.
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- Shochiku
- Yasujirō Ozu
What Did the Lady Forget? Directed by Yasujiro Ozu • 1937 • Japan. Starring Michiko Kuwano, Tatsuo Saito, Sumiko Kurishima. Yasujiro Ozu puts a witty spin on his recurring theme of generational clash in this sophisticated comedy, which bears the unmistakable influence of Ernst Lubitsch.
By Richard Brody. June 25, 2015. Tradition and modernity, freethinking and emotional inhibition form the lines of conflict in Yasujiro Ozu’s 1937 melodrama, centered on Komiya, a nearly middle-aged...
Change of pace here for Ozu: lightly satirizing affluent, middle class suburban Japanese life w/ contemporary women and the henpecked husbands or ineffectual men in their lives. Observant of ...
- Comedy
