A man returns from World War II to find his desperate wife had resorted to one night of prostitution to pay for their son's hospital bills.
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Title: A Hen in the Wind (1948)
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| Kinuyo Tanaka | ... | Tokiko Amamiya | |
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| Chishû Ryû | ... | Kazuichiro Satake | |
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Hôhi Aoki | ... | Shoichi |
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Chiyoko Fumiya | ... | Fusako Onada |
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Kenzô Nakagawa | ||
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Sakae Nakayama | ... | Nurse #3 |
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A man returns from World War II to find his desperate wife had resorted to one night of prostitution to pay for their son's hospital bills.
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"Record of a Tenement Gentleman" is Ozu's actual first post-war movie, but while it is set in a post-war environment it still relied a lot in his themes of family, father/mother and son, family love that Ozu had always explored, rather than discussing questions from a post-war society.
"A Hen in the Wind" does that. It offers a true war/post-war situation and deals with the people that suffer from it.
The story is quite simple and I've found some of his other movies to be more emotional. However, it is one of his most serious and violent. I do think Ozu is capable of adding more depth to his movies than what we see here, but I was very happy to find a different subject from what he does usually, explored in a such disturbing way. Ozu's themes are pretty much the same all over his work, but "A Hen in the Wind" stands out for a different kind of serious issue. It is, for that, very refreshing.
Very serious, very sad, very human, unexpectedly violent and a touching look at a post-war situation, it stands out mostly for being different from Ozu's usual themes.