Soshun

It’s quite easy to dismiss the sameness in the feeling and look of Ozu movies if you don’t want to look a little deeper. We have our usual perfectly framed rooms that create the tensions and emotions within the film and a camera that slowly drifts to follow everyone. There’s a lack of a BIG moment and more about the mundane nature of life. The deep distrust of a changing Japan and its new hyper capitalist structure and what that means to relationship dynamics especially martial ones. A slow erosion of everything that makes you love a person and it’s replaced by alienation. Ozu gives the couple a second chance at love but it’s in that sort of bitter “what happens next” way that something like It’s A Wonderful Life ends on.