Shûji Sano is a college student. Kinuyo Tanaka is the hotess at her father's restaurant, where the pork cutlets are outstanding. They want to get married, and everyone is agreeable, except for the cook, who loves Miss Tanaka.
It's a pleasant romantic little movie about love among the struggling classes in pre-war Japan. There's quite a cast, including Hideko Takamine as Miss Tanaka's kid sister, and Chishû Ryû. The youngsters are very cute together, with her henpecking him a little. It's decent, if not amazing work. And for some reason, the director, Heinosuke Gosho took three years to make his next movie after this; in fact, he directed only four movies until the end of World War Two, which makes me think he had annoyed someone at the censor's office. This programmer could have offended almost no one, so I think some of his sharper works earlier in the decade got him on a list. Still, he came back in the 1950s, and by the end of his career in the 1960s, he had directed a hundred features, including some very fine ones.
