Passing Fancy (出来ごころ, Dekigokoro) is a 1933 silent movie produced by Shochiku Company, directed by Japanese director Yasujirō Ozu and starring Takeshi Sakamoto, Nobuko Fushimi, Den Obinata and Chouko Iida.. It won the Kinema Junpo Award for best film, the second of three consecutive years an Ozu film won, following I Was Born, But. and preceding A Story of Floating Weeds. Passing Fancy: Directed by Yasujirô Ozu. With Takeshi Sakamoto, Nobuko Fushimi, Den Ôhinata, Chôko Iida. Two Tokyo co-workers come across a destitute young lady in search of a place to live.
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The first of many films featuring the endearing single-dad Kihachi (played wonderfully by Takeshi Sakamoto), Passing Fancy is a humorous and heartfelt study of a close, if fraught, father-son relationship. With an ever more sophisticated visual style and understanding of fragile human relationships, Ozu seamlessly weaves rib-tickling comedy and weighty family drama for this distinguished. Passing Fancy by Yasujiro Ozu. Publication date 1933 Topics. PASSING FANCY is a humorous and heartfelt study of a close, if fraught, father-son relationship. With an ever more sophisticated visual style and understanding of fragile human relationships, Ozu seamlessly weaves rib-tickling comedy and weighty family drama for this distinguished. Directed by Yasujiro Ozu • 1933 • Japan The first of many films featuring the endearing single-dad Kihachi (played wonderfully by Takeshi Sakamoto), PASSING FANCY is a humorous and heartfelt study of a close, if fraught, father-son relationship. With an ever more sophisticated visual style and understanding of fragile human relationships, Ozu seamlessly weaves rib-tickling comedy and. The world of Yasujiro Ozu's Passing Fancy (1933) is a far cry from the comfortable middle-class milieu of Ozu's later films, but the director evokes it with every bit as much affection and acutely observed detail. It is the first of four films that Ozu made featuring Takeshi Sakamoto as the character named Kihachi. The other films in the series include A Story of Floating Weeds (1934), An.
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I've chosen Passing Fancy (1933), chronologically the last of the three in this set, which places it right before A Story of Floating Weeds (1934), the last domestically available Ozu silent, which in turn precedes The Only Son (1936), for those interested in placing all this Ozu chatter into a manageable timeline! Passing Fancy is a 1933 silent movie produced by Shochiku Company, directed by Japanese director Yasujirō Ozu and starring Takeshi Sakamoto, Nobuko Fushimi, Den Obinata and Chouko Iida. An Ozu season created by one of Letterboxd's best members. More early Ozu. This one has evident charm and good performances.. Passing Fancy begins as a mostly lighthearted romp about a potential love triangle between two men - Kihachi, a goofy, aging single father and the other man a younger, attractive but bitter former soldier - and the. Passing Fancy is the first of Ozu's films about the misadventures of Kihachi, and his second film to win the Kinema Junpo first prize. Sakamoto Takeshi's Kihachi is extremely careless and given to temper tantrums, though occasionally he beams with the goofy glow of Chaplin's tramp.
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Set in old Edo in the sweltering summer heat, Passing Fancy concerns an illiterate day laborer who is raising his son (Ozu's favorite brat, Tokkan Kozo) with the help of a friend. Both men end up involved with the same young woman, whose rejection of the father leads him into drunkenness, dissipation, and a violent quarrel with his beloved son. Observations on Film Art No. 37 One of the last Japanese directors to make the transition to sound, Yasujiro Ozu continued making silent pictures until the midthirties. His lovely 1933 domestic drama PASSING FANCY is a gently humorous take on one of his signature themes: the relationship between fathers and sons. In this edition of Observations on Film Art, Professor David Bordwell explores.
Like many Ozu films, 'Passing Fancy' is about the difficulties of father-son relationships, set in a small Japanese town, mostly passing with the intimate indoor conversations of characters, which framed in a certain way manages to reveal great depth. In this particular instance, in a one room house with few furnishings and damaged walls, the. With Passing Fancy Ozu place a sense of heartwarming comedy amongst the setting of a Tokyo slum. In the most thoughtful and beautifully realized expression, Ozu captures the essence of a father-son relationship.. Passing Fancy was the first of an eventual thematic trilogy of sorts about Kihachi, a stubborn everyday man with a.
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The first of many films featuring the endearing single-dad Kihachi (played wonderfully by Takeshi Sakamoto), Passing Fancy is a humorous and heartfelt study of a close, if fraught, father-son relationship. With an ever more sophisticated visual style and understanding of fragile human relationships, Ozu seamlessly weaves rib-tickling comedy and weighty family drama for this distinguished. Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema is available for free download here. (Be patient; the file is big.) An earlier Observations segment considered Kurosawa's cutting of martial-arts action, and a blog entry developed that a bit more. Another way to make a silent talkie is discussed in this entry on The Donovan Affair. Passing Fancy (1933).
