Passing Fancy

Yasujiro Ozu, 1933: a single father (Takeshi Sakamoto) and his son in a Tokyo tenement, a neighborhood boss, a teacher, a woman who might be a future. Silent, late. Ozu still shooting in the Kamata style, already lowering the camera. Passing Fancy is the title and the method: a life that happens in looks, drinks, a lost wallet. The son is the one who sees. Shochiku. It is the everyday film before he named the everyday.