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I Was Born, But...
1932 1h 31m Not Rated
Comedy
,
Drama
7.9
100%
89%
75%
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Two young brothers throw a tantrum when they discover that their father isn't the most important man in his workplace.
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Directed By
Yasujirō Ozu
Written By
Akira Fushimi
,
Geibei Ibushiya
Studio
Shochiku
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Cast of I Was Born, But...
Tatsuo Saitō
Yoshi
Tomio Aoki
Keiji
Mitsuko Yoshikawa
Haha
Hideo Sugawara
Ryoichi
Takeshi Sakamoto
Juuyaku
Teruyo Hayami
Fujin
Seiichi Katô
Kodomo
Shoichi Kofujita
Delivery Boy
Seiji Nishimura
Teacher
Zentaro Iijima
Friend
Shôtarô Fujimatsu
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Masao Hayama
Friend
Kuniyasu Hayashi
Friend
Akio Nomura
Friend
Teruaki Ishiwatari
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I Was Born, But... Reviews
New York Times
A.O. Scott
One of those silent black-and-white old movies that makes the subsequent advances in the medium look redundant.
eye WEEKLY
Jason Anderson
A delightful silent film about two young brothers whose family moves to a new town.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
An amusing, well-acted and intelligent slice of social commentary.
LarsenOnFilm
Josh Larsen
A charming, genial satire that touches on a bitter truth...
Old School Reviews
John A. Nesbit
goes beyond the genre by offering subtle social criticism%u2014a first in Japanese cinema
Filmcritic.com
Don Willmott
Sociology and history aside, I Was Born, But%u2026 is also a romp and never loses its sense of humor.
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Jake Euker
Charming early Ozu.
New Yorker
Anthony Lane
[I Was Born, But . . .] is a master class -- one of the [Ozu's] earliest -- in the art of distilling emotional intensity from quiet lives.
Slate
Dana Stevens
Ozu's movie is also smart at levels almost too subtle to discern, perhaps not so much smart as wise.
Village Voice
Nick Schager
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.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
One of Yasujiro Ozu's most sublime films.
Classic Film and Television
Michael E. Grost
Visually creative comedy about children and their parents.
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
Expresses the ideal vantage for surveying the joys and banalities of youthful and adult existence
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
A masterpiece, and one of Ozu's three or four greatest works.
Turner Classic Movies Online
Sean Axmaker
Behind the deft comedy and spirited performances of the two boys is a rather somber engagement with the compromises adults make to the demands of the social order.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
This splendid example of a salaryman's film is the first great film of the master's.
Vague Visages
Jeremy Carr
If Ozu has taught us anything, it's that life doesn't get any easier. But life does go on.
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
A well-established classic...
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