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I Was Born, But...
Comedy, Drama - 1932
I Was Born, But...
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7.9
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Brothers Keiji and Ryoichi move to a new neighborhood in the Tokyo suburbs after their father, an office clerk, is promoted. The boys join the local gang as lowly new kids and emerge as natural leaders after defeating a bully. While visiting the home of their father's boss, the brothers witness the ridicule their father endures to please his superior. Angry and embarrassed, the boys find their naive ideas about power being challenged.
Director:
,
Yasujirō Ozu
Cast:
,
Chishū Ryū
,
Tomio Aoki
,
Mitsuko Yoshikawa
,
Tatsuo Saitō
,
Takeshi Sakamoto
,
Seiichi Katô
,
Hideo Sugawara
,
Teruyo Hayami

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Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
91 min
Release date:
3 Jun 1932
Country:
JP
Languages:
xx
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
1 win total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
One of those silent black-and-white old movies that makes the subsequent advances in the medium look redundant.
– A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
25 Jun 2010
fresh:
[I Was Born, But . . .] is a master class -- one of the [Ozu's] earliest -- in the art of distilling emotional intensity from quiet lives.
– Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
23 Sep 2013
fresh:
Ozu's movie is also smart at levels almost too subtle to discern, perhaps not so much smart as wise.
– Dana Stevens,
Slate,
25 Jun 2010
fresh:
Watching the first hour of I Was Born, But... (unspooling with a bright, new piano score by Donald Sosin) might remind you of a subdued Our Gang skit, and not unpleasantly.
– Joshua Rothkopf,
Time Out New York,
23 Jun 2010
fresh:
The film retains a measure of tempered hope, born not simply from the father's command-cum-wish to his slumbering offspring but also from a final act of youthful compassion that binds Ozu's intensely human characters in glass-half-full solidarity.
– Nick Schager,
Village Voice,
22 Jun 2010
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