A good movie

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since it was directed by Ozu and since it was on YouTube, I thought I might as well check it out. Not so long ago, I saw also ‘Tôkyô no kôrasu’ from the same director but, to be honest, it was actually rather disappointing. Fortunately, this movie turned out to be much more satisfying. To be honest, the beginning was rather messy though. Indeed, I don’t really understand why they started to show these police officers in their precinct. Then, they suddenly switched to a rather unclear robbery. Fortunately, after that, the movie finally did settle with a basic structure which was, at least, easier to follow. Indeed, you then had two parts. During the first part, you basically followed the main character running around in the streets trying to escape from the police and I think there was some surrealist quality about this 1^st half. Indeed, they gave at the time no intertitles and it was visually pretty neat as well which I didn’t expect from such a vintage Ozu feature. The second part was also quite interesting because it completely flipped your expectations concerning this man but also concerning the guy chasing him. In this case, this humanistic approach was much more some classic Ozu but he was definitely the master in this genre, giving time and time such seemingly simple and yet complex human characters and this movie was no exception. Eventually, I have to admit that the whole thing was nothing really mind-blowing though, the material was indeed a little bit slight and it is no wonder that the running time was around 60 mins. Anyway, to conclude, it was still a decent watch though and I think it is worth a look, especially if you are interested in Yasujirô Ozu’s work.