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Récit d'un propriétaire

Original title: Nagaya shinshiroku
  • 1947
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  • 1h 12m
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
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Récit d'un propriétaire (1947)
Drama

In postwar Japan, an abandoned boy nobody wants to take care of grows a relationship with a cynical middle-aged woman.In postwar Japan, an abandoned boy nobody wants to take care of grows a relationship with a cynical middle-aged woman.In postwar Japan, an abandoned boy nobody wants to take care of grows a relationship with a cynical middle-aged woman.

  • Director
    • Yasujirô Ozu
  • Writers
    • Tadao Ikeda
    • Yasujirô Ozu
  • Stars
    • Chôko Iida
    • Hôhi Aoki
    • Eitarô Ozawa
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.7/10
    2.4K
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    • Director
      • Yasujirô Ozu
    • Writers
      • Tadao Ikeda
      • Yasujirô Ozu
    • Stars
      • Chôko Iida
      • Hôhi Aoki
      • Eitarô Ozawa
    • 19User reviews
    • 18Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Chôko Iida
    Chôko Iida
    • Otane
    Hôhi Aoki
    • Kohei the boy
    Eitarô Ozawa
    Eitarô Ozawa
    • Father
    Mitsuko Yoshikawa
    Mitsuko Yoshikawa
    • Kikuko
    Reikichi Kawamura
    • Tamekichi
    Hideko Mimura
    • Okiku
    Chishû Ryû
    Chishû Ryû
    • Tashiro
    Takeshi Sakamoto
    Takeshi Sakamoto
    • Kihachi Kawayoshi
    Eiko Takamatsu
    • Tome Kawayoshi
    Taiji Tonoyama
    Taiji Tonoyama
    • Photographer
    Yûichi Kôno
    Seiji Nishimura
    • Neighbor
    Fujiyo Osafune
    • Shigeko
    Yoshino Tani
    • Mother
    • Director
      • Yasujirô Ozu
    • Writers
      • Tadao Ikeda
      • Yasujirô Ozu
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    8crossbow0106

    Very Good

    This is a simple story about a fortune teller (Chishu Ryu, who 2 years later would be in "Late Spring" looking like he aged 25 years) who brings home a lost boy. No one wants to take over the burden of caring for the kid, but Otane eventually has to (played by Lida Choko). She clearly wants to get rid of him after going to the place where the kid and his father lived, to find out the father deserted him. He wets the bed and thinks she'll throw him out anyway, because she shows no affection for the boy, but gradually warms to him. Ozu's film is simply told, but there is a sociological underpinning to it that is complex. This situation of deserted children in war and post war Japan had to be a significant one and it is told plainly but effectively. In the small community (with wide open spaces where buildings should be), there is camaraderie and that is heartwarming. It is a fairly short film, just 72 minutes, but the length of the film is perfect. Like many of Ozu's films, this features many of the actors/actresses that were in other films of his, but that is good. They know their roles so well and play them well. Not a masterpiece, but a worthy film to watch.
    10barev-85094

    Little known Ozu Masterpiece packs a subtle Wallop!

    Ozu's Record of a Tenement Gentleman, 1947. B/w, 72 minutes. Original title "Nagaya Shinshiroku ~ (長屋紳士録 ).

    Viewed at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival of 2003. One of the best films seen here that year was a little known Japanese film, in the Ozu retrospective sidebar entitled, "RECORD OF A TENEMENT DWELLER" made just after the war in 1947. This was Ozu's return to filmmaking for Shochiku after four years of military service in China. The film is the story of a simple unmarried woman who is forced, much against her will, to take in a small boy, apparently abandoned in the postwar shattered Tokyo hustle and bustle. After much hostility toward the child, she finally realizes how much he has filled the void in her life and that she in fact loves him -- but only does this realization hit her when the father reappears to repossess his lost child. A simple story so directly told that it sneaks up on you like a time-bomb and makes you realize that your heart was crying -- but only ten minutes after the film is over! An early masterpiece from the master of Zen and the Art of telling stories on film, and an incredibly subtle, yet bombshell, performance by the main actress Chôko Iida, in my book, a retroactive Best Actress Oscar for the year that was. Iida was extremely active in Japanese silent pictures from 1923 on and had already appeared in supporting roles in three prewar Ozu films; "An Inn in Tokyo", (1935) the first version of "Floating Weeds" (1934), and "Dekigoro" (A Passing Fancy, 1933), but this performance when she was already pushing fifty was her acting apotheosis. Unfortunately Ozu's uniquely stylized films were not discovered in the west until after his death in 1963 and are only now becoming recognized little by little in astute cinema circles as the quiet unhurried masterpieces which they are.
    8AlsExGal

    Director Ozu returns after a five year break

    Japanese drama from Shochiku and director Yasujiro Ozu. Poor second-hand merchant O-Tane (Choko Iida) is put in a tough spot when her neighbors bring her a very young boy (Hohi Aoki) and ask her to take care of him. It seems the child was abandoned, and after searching for some time, no family for him could be found. O-Tane angrily agrees, but her grumpy exterior slowly softens as she spends more time with the quiet child. Also featuring Chishu Ryu, Reikichi Kawamura, Takeshi Sakamoto, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, and Eitaro Ozawa.

    This was Ozu's first film after a five year break during WW2. It seems a warm return home, as his style is intact, and many of the same familiar Shochiku players return. Ozu regular Iida gets a spotlight role as the cranky old widow who slowly warms to becoming a surrogate mother. The film is also of interest for its glimpse of post-war Japan, and the struggles and hardships of maintaining a life in the rubble left behind. My only complaint would that, at 71 minutes, it's a bit too short.
    8Alexandre1553

    Beautifully shot, wonderful emotional movie

    It's such a shame that Ozu wasn't more of an outdoor director, because I've just found out his landscape shots are some of the most beautiful I have ever seen. This is one of Ozu's most beautiful movies.

    As always, Chôko Iida is absolutely amazing. It's a beautiful story, with a lot of light, funny moments and tender, emotional ones as well. It's not very different from Ozu's pre-war movies, but as such it's equally beautiful. I was somehow disappointed for Ozu not exploring even more the tenement's habitants, but overall I was satisfied with Chôko Iida performance and the tender story of the bond between her and a child.
    chaos-rampant

    Languid postwar Ozu

    Postwar Ozu, and by contrast to prewar films, little has changed; clear, composed eye, quietly enduring lives, even in the face of near-complete destruction.

    Once more, a primary point lies in the edifying fable of the thing. The father is absent, authority if you will, core social integrity, always a looming absence in Ozu, and the orphaned kid will have to rely on the fundamental kindness of the world. Of course that world rises to the occasion, overcomes ego, harshness, in this case no doubt fostered by the hard reality of the times. Instead of scavenging alleys for nails to piece back together destroyed homes, it is asserted that selfless love should take care of that.

    This is asserted in a clumsily unsubtle way, straight to the camera. Ozu was back at Shochiku from wartorn Manchuria, and it should not be underestimated, so were many Japanese, back from whatever gruelling role they were forced to play in the war.

    To better understand this conservative need for closure, you have to note the way Ozu closes the film. The woman wanting to take care of another orphaned kid is pointed to the direction of Saigo's statue in Ueno Park - where it stands to this day. Saigo was a popular hero famous in conventional history for the last stand of the old samurai faction against plans for a modernized Japan. The ill-advised Tom Cruise film portrays the events.

    This is enough to give us pause. Here's a director who had been unerringly forward-looking 15 years ago, had fervently embraced modern foreign film and widely referenced Western mores, no longer a youthful cinephile but sobered from the experience of war, who points for inspiration to this paragon of samurai virtue and ethos. Japan might as well forget the bold experiment with an empire that ended in such humiliating defeat, and look back instead to the simpler times when feudal lords and their police maintained coherence of the world.

    This is a pity. The eye is clear but dulled by emotion, making for languid flow but without insight. Japan would have to wait another 10 years for the next generation of forward-looking filmmakers to look deeper into the ruins.

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    • Trivia
      This was the first movie made by director Yasujirô Ozu after returning to Japan from his wartime army service abroad. After the surrender, he had been held for half a year in a British POW camp near Singapore, where he had been stationed. Legend has it that he was late in returning to Japan (in February 1946) because, although he was scheduled to be repatriated earlier, another Japanese soldier was desperate to go home, and Ozu let this other man go in his place.
    • Quotes

      Tamekichi: [curious about Tashiro's work, which involves fortunetelling] Does fortunetelling work?

      Tashiro: Of course it does. Nothing works better.

      Tamekichi: Really? The other day you left home wearing rain boots, but the day turned out to be sunny.

      Tashiro: Weather isn't my specialty. The weather forecast on the radio works well for that.

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      Featured in The Story of Film: An Odyssey: Birth of the Cinema (2011)

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    • Release date
      • July 8, 1992 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Record of a Tenement Gentleman
    • Filming locations
      • Tokyo, Japan(setting of the action)
    • Production company
      • Shochiku
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      1 hour 12 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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