Underplayed Gems

The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947)

The Record of a Tenement Gentleman poster
Original title
長屋紳士録
Directed by
Yasujirō Ozu
Genre
drama film
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 12m
Rated
M/12
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 62 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A grumpy old man in a Tokyo tenement reluctantly takes in a lost boy. The story shows how their grumpy and uneasy relationship slowly becomes something like family.

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What happens

Record of a Tenement Gentleman (長屋紳士録, Nagaya shinshiroku) is a Japanese film written and directed by Yasujirō Ozu in 1947. The film was Ozu's first after World War II. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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