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I Was Born, But... (Children of Tokyo)

Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo

1932

Yasujirō Ozu

Tatsuo Saito, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Seiichi Kato, Michio Sato ...

7.8

1,781

Drama. Comedy In the 30s, a low middle-class family composed of the father (Tatsuo Saito), the mother (Mitsuko Yoshikawa) and two little sons (Hideo Sugawara and Tomio Aoki) has just moved to a suburb of Tokyo. The two brothers have some sort of adaptation problem with the kids in their neighborhood, but they feel protected with their beloved father, and they become leaders of the gang. Their father is a clerk in an office, and his director lives in ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Anthony Lane The New Yorker	"A master class—one of the director’s earliest—in the art of distilling emotional intensity from quiet lives"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"The exquisite precision of Ozu’s shooting style is certainly evident (...) A small masterpiece, perfect in design and execution (...) The film’s profundity and its charm go hand in hand."	POS
United States	Dana Stevens Slate	"Masterpiece (...) [It] commands your attention with the authority of a great work of art (...) Ozu's movie is also smart at levels almost too subtle to discern"	POS
United States	Ricky D'Ambrose Slant	"Ozu’s film achieves its careful, tender variation of the coming-of-age story without ever smacking of sentimental platitudes (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Philip Horne Telegraph	"Dark and superbly touching"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"It's silent (...) but its visual style is so dynamic that you hardly notice; both the gags and the emotional disappointments are anchored in a sure sense of characterisation that remains wholly fresh"	POS

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