Hogaraka ni ayume

An interesting film where Ozu is still working towards his later skills. The gangster scenes are wholly unreal- a never-land out of Hollywood films where gangsters play golf and billiards and pick pockets or hold up people now and then- certainly we don't see them making enough to keep them in the style to which they appear accustomed. The most interesting aspect is that the demure and innocent heroine and her family are the only unwesternised characters in the film: they live in a traditional house, wear traditional clothes- indeed, in contrast to her criminal rival for Ken's love, she even uses a Japanese-character type-writer in the office they work in.