Three years after the completion of "Let's Go Happily", the Japanese craze for gangster romance films has not waned. When Ozu returns to this genre, h[Expand All]
Three years after the completion of "Let's Go Happily", the Japanese craze for gangster romance films has not waned. When Ozu returns to this genre, his mindset and skills are different from before. The characters' emotions have become more complex and tragic, and the arrangement of every scene and object in the pictures is full of ingenuity. Following the characters from the previous work, it tells the story of the love and hatred between a gangster boss and two women, one good and one bad. But this time, both the gangster and the bad woman are attracted to the good woman, and the gangster does not abandon the bad woman in the end. Perhaps to enhance the persuasiveness of the plot, Ozu invited Tanaka Kuko to play the female lead. The bad girl is indeed evil in a subtle way, and sometimes she is even pitiful. It's a pity that Kiyoshi had just starred in the deeply popular "Izu Dancer", and her portrayal of a bad girl was not well-received by the audience at that time. Ozu has mastered the gangster genre to perfection, and many people consider this to be his peak work in silent films. The 27th Hong Kong International Film Festival[Collapse]
