1931 · silent · comedy
The Lady and the Beard
Directed by Yasujirō Ozu1h 15m1931
Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.
Our read: The Lady and the Beard (1931) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded silent · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle silent / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
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