that the characters' "emotions or hidden instincts are brilliantly revealed through small details". In The New Yorker, Richard Brody argued that "Ozu’s despairing view of postwar Japan looks as harshly at blind modernization as it does at decadent tradition." Don Druker of the Chicago Reader called the film a "casual yet meticulously detailed reconstruction of Japan's routinized white-collar milieu". Despite the praise, it is not one of Ozu's most renowned works. Home media In 2012, the BFI released the film on Region 2 DVD, along with Tokyo Twilight and Woman of Tokyo, as Three Melodramas. References External links 1956 films 1956 drama films Japanese drama films Japanese black-and-white films Films directed by Yasujirō Ozu Films with screenplays by Yasujirō Ozu Films with screenplays by Kogo Noda Shochiku films Adultery in films Films about death Films set in Tokyo 1950s Japanese films