Walk Cheerfully

Yasujiro Ozu takes on the gangster movie, and it’s just about the most Ozu gangster movie I can think of. A quite, melodramatic look at a man making a key choice without violence in the name of a woman, Walk Carefully is a wonderful little movie from Ozu’s silent period that demonstrates that while he works as a contract director in the studio system, he can still make films his own. By the time the finale rolls around, there’s no question that Ozu’s talent was being allowed to flourish.

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