1930 · silent · crime · drama
That Night's Wife
Directed by Yasujirō Ozu1h 6m1930
In Depression-era Japan, a man commits a robbery to save his critically ill daughter and escapes with the funds, but complications arise.
Our read: That Night's Wife (1930) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded silent · crime · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured silent / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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