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Important things are hard to say.
Important things are hard to say.
Comedy, Drama, Family
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1959
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Two boys beg their parents for a television set, nagging them until all patience is lost. The parents order the boys to be quiet and the boys do exactly that--refusing to utter a word. The boys' silence ultimately puts the whole neighborhood into turmoil.
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Runtime:
94 min
Release date:
12 May 1959
Country:
JP
Languages:
Japanese, English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
1 nomination
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
[Ozu's] sense of generational conflict in a society at risk from within is here at its sharpest and most anarchic.
– Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
1 Jul 2013
fresh:
Perhaps the most delightful of Yasujiro Ozu's late comedies.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
20 May 2011
fresh:
A brimming sense of life, in other words, gradually transforms the small talk into a richly devious portrait of humanity being human.
– Tom Milne,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
rotten:
Cozy but tepid.
– ,
New York Times,
9 May 2005