Tatsuo Saitô and Mitsuko Yoshikawa have married off the third of three daughters. Feeling the expense and too much liquor, he worries about their future, with their nine-year-old son, Masao Hayama. They're not young and he anticipates twenty years before the boy is independent. When he suggests that an education is no guarantee of a good life anymore -- there's a worry that hasn't grown out of date! -- and suggests that they apprentice him to a good trade, she accuses him of not loving his son and leaves for her daughter's home with the boy.
Heinosuke Gosho's family comedy is a mild but heartfelt tempest in a teapot, with several pleasantly drawn battles of the sexes, good performances and even a nicely realized nightclub sequence in which Saitô encounters a couple of underlings out of his usual element. In sum total, it's a very pleasant if not particularly surprising effort.
Heinosuke Gosho's family comedy is a mild but heartfelt tempest in a teapot, with several pleasantly drawn battles of the sexes, good performances and even a nicely realized nightclub sequence in which Saitô encounters a couple of underlings out of his usual element. In sum total, it's a very pleasant if not particularly surprising effort.
