Dir. Yasujiro Ozu (1942).
Yasujiro Ozu extols and subverts the wartime self-sacrifice ethos in this stoical weepie-set on the home front and focused on the nobility of a flawed patriarch.
Lincoln Center delves into tales of the wicked, the outcast, the unholy, the misunderstood, and the freakish in a survey of the audacious director’s genre-busting — and defining — films.