What Did The Lady Forget? (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1937)

Wise and charming battle of the sexes comedy in which Komiya (Tatsuo Saito) a meek professor under the thumb of bossy wife Tokiko (Suiko Kurishima) is put straight by his liberated niece Setsuko (Michiko Kuwano after he gets into trouble for concocting an alibi to cover their drunken night out together at a geisha house. Kuwano – who conveys a … Read the rest