Record of a Tenement Gentleman at Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, on Thursday 12 December. Amidst the strife of post-war Japan, a homeless boy is taken in by a grumpy widow who begins to grow fond of him. Part of EAFFI Discoveries.
In RECORD OF A TENEMENT GENTLEMAN, Ozu’s first film after the Second World War, a homeless boy wanders the streets of a deprived neighbourhood of Tokyo in post-war Japan, where nobody wants to take care of him. After a draw, he is entrusted to Tane, a grumpy middle-aged widow who is allergic to children. Forced to take him in, she gradually grows fond of him. This marvellous, bittersweet neorealist chronicle is tinged with burlesque and comic touches, and exemplifies the singularity and poetry of Ozu’s work, simple yet powerful, made with modesty and restraint.
(Marie-Pierre Richard, East Asia Film Festival Ireland & EAFFI Discoveries)
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