Hitori musuko (The only son) 1936 - "Ozu's first talkie picture of maternal sacrifice"

Imdb link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027752/
Ratings (imdb +allrovi): 4* out of 5*

Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Main Cast: Choko Iida, Shin'ichi Himori, Masao Hayama, Chishu Ryu


Description:

Yasujiro Ozu's first "talkie" of the 1930s, The Only Son, begins with an epitomizing and foreshadowing quote by author Rynosuke Akatagawa that would continually resurface later in his most revered work. "Life's tragedy begins with the bond between parent and child" serves as a preface for the film depicting mother Otsune's sacrifice to ensure financial security and quality of life for her only child, Ryosuke. The Only Son manages the situation in a unique and remarkable way, balancing point of view through the central premise of supporting family and, as film scholar Tony Rayns puts it, "investing more than one could afford in getting a good education." To understand the film's core issue, examination of the era's wealthy background is required, but its wealth can only be measured in the capacity of dilemmas. Pre-WWII Japan in 1936 was plagued by social injustice, mutinies, resource shortages, and poverty. Instead of manufacturing an environment for the film, Ozu captures that grim reality of Tokyo with its barren fields, lower income housing and industrial factories on the outskirts of the city. While The Only Son is dedicated to a specific time period for a majority of its duration, the film remains the lone work in Ozu's filmography with notated time gaps; their importance is fundamental to establishing emotional links in the characters' journeys through educational and personal aspirations, topics that resonate as true today as they did seventy-five years ago.
 Though overshadowed by Ozu's lengthier and more complex Late Spring (1949) and Tokyo Story (1953), at a slim eighty-three minutes, the film absolutely remains of one of Yasujiro Ozu's most notable works.

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