Ozu’s best nansensu comedy mostly features the foibles of two young brothers just deposited in a suburb where the native boys are hostile towards them. There is an underdeveloped counterpoint with the boys’ father and his relationship to his boss, but while the visuals and editing connect the A and B plots, the script — which is not by Noda — does not really manage to do this until the end of the film. 

As always Ozu nails the ending,…

The 4K DCP is stunning to behold and the audio is so beautifully rendered in the academy’s globe theater. I hadn’t seen this on the big screen in about ten years when the academy ran it at the more intimate herrick library screening room, then it was a beautiful new 35mm print. The 4k feels like film, it’s only the rock steady perfection of it gives it away.

The film remains one of my favorites, so layered and fascinating, much…

Fairly poor early Looney Tunes in the rubber hose style of the era with Bosko and a Fox styled on Mickey Mouse. there’s one really nice long looping elaborate background and an attempt at water effects on the fox’s tail, and a couple good layouts for some decent cartoon logic gags, but even for 1931 most of these gags are old hat for animation and the comic timing of a lot of them is fairly poor. It’s padded out with…