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Smiling Through.(Tokyo Chorus, I Was Born, But... and All About Eve)(Video recording review)
Publication: The New Yorker Publication Date: 28-APR-08 Author: Brody, Richard
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COPYRIGHT 2008 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
The Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu's wry humor, on view in Criterion's new boxed set "Silent Ozu--Three Family Comedies," reaches deep: he approaches sentimental domestic themes as microcosms of great social issues. "Tokyo Chorus," from 1931, deals with the Depression, which hit Japan hard, and its story turns on money matters. Okajima (Tokihiko Okada), a salaryman at an...
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