Soshun 1956

Critics score:
100 / 100

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Nora Sayre, New York Times: With subtle precision, Ozu shows how personal and national anxieties seep through infinite lives. Yet this impeccably acted movie is far from depressing, since the filmmaker stresses that mistakes aren't irreversible. Read more

Don Druker, Chicago Reader: A casual yet meticulously detailed reconstruction of Japan's routinized white-collar milieu. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: Ozu's despairing view of postwar Japan looks as harshly at blind modernization as it does at decadent tradition. Read more

Time Out: A typically low-key domestic drama in Ozu's mournful, defeatist vein. Read more