I was born but ...

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Movie
German title I was born but ...
Original title 大人 の 見 る 繪本 ・ 生 れ て は み た け れ ど も . Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredomo
Country of production Japan
Publishing year 1932
length 100 minutes
Rod
Director Yasujirō Ozu
script Akira Fushimi,
Yasujirō Ozu
production The Takayama
camera Hideo Shigehara
occupation
  • Tatsuo Saitō: Father
  • Mitsuko Yoshikawa: mother
  • Hideo Sugawara: Ryōichi, older son
  • Tomio Aoki: Keiji, younger son
  • Seiichi Katō: Tarō, son of the company boss
  • Takeshi Sakamoto: CEO

I was born, but ... ( Japanese 大人 の 見 る 繪本 ・ 生 れ て は み た け れ ど , Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredomo ) is a Japanese film by director Yasujirō Ozu from 1932 . The silent film with Japanese subtitles is Ozu's first socially critical film.

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The film is about two boys, Ryoichi and his younger brother Keiji, who have to learn to cope with the dictates of society. They have to get used to the new environment in Tōkyō, to their school and to their classmates. Little by little they are accepted.

The two of them want to please their father, but do not provide that they have to be nice to the son Taro of the company boss, under whom he works. The son also belongs to a gang in the neighborhood that torments the surrounding area, and is by no means as clever and strong as they are.

You try to explore the relationships between entrepreneurs and employees and gradually begin to understand them. They end up accepting the adult attitude that honors a person's position rather than their ability . So, after all, they adapt themselves.

Addendum

"I was born, but ..." is recognized as the first film with socially critical content within Japanese film. One of the central themes is the tension between work and family life, which Ozu also comes back to in later films. The film also has its comedic side with the mischief the boys occasionally do.

Ozu took up the subject again in 1959 in the film "Guten Morgen" .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Fushimi Akira (伏 見 晁; 1900–1970) wrote a series of scripts for Ouzu.
  2. ↑ Shigehara Hideo (茂 原 英雄; 1905–1967) initially ran the camera exclusively for Ozu.
  3. ↑ From left to right: Hideo Sugawara, Seiichi Katō, Tomio Aoki.

literature

  • S. Noma (Ed.): Umareta wa mita keredomo . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1652.
  • Buehrer, BB: Japanese Films . McFarlayl, 1990. ISBN 0-89950-458-2 .
  • Bordwell, David: Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema . British Film Institute, 1988. ISBN 0-85170-159-0 .

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