I Was Born, But...
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Director: Yasujirô Ozu
1932 / 89min / 35mm
The film for which Ozu won his first prestigious “Best One” award from the magazine Kinema Junpo and the most enduringly cherished of his extant silents, I Was Born, But… shows the influence of the director’s considerable fondness for the Hal Roach Little Rascals shorts, a painful and poignant work about two bullied and beleaguered suburban Tokyo boys (Suguwara Hideo and Tokkan Kozou) who, upon catching their salaryman father in a moment of groveling deference to his boss, decide to go on a hunger strike. An enormously lovable film that addresses itself to some enormously unpleasant facts about growing up.
Live musical accompaniment featuring Alex Zhang Hungtai (sax/trumpet), Lester St. Louis (cello), and Laura Cocks (flute)
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