A lively and charming comedy. The niece from Osaka is so fascinating. An enthusiastic smoker, drinker, and patron of geisha clubs, she embodies a longing for a less rigid, more cosmopolitan Japan felt throughout the film. She's also one of the more overtly queer coded characters in Ozu's oeuvre
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WHAT DID THE LADY FORGET? (1937), a Japanese comedy in which a free-spirited young woman from Osaka comes to stay with her more conservative aunt and uncle in Tokyo and proves to be a disruptive force
Directed by Yasujiro Ozu
Starring Michiko Kuwano and Tatsuo Saito - BOTD in 1902
