Yasujirō Ozu is out of Noriko territory and out of the happy go lucky landscape of the last few films to a couple that are a bit more of realists in the mundane blue collar work society, Ryō Ikebe as Shoji Sugiyama and his wife Masako Sugiyama played by actor Chikage Awashima.
I'm enjoying the more adult narrative in an affair within the workplace when all of the films prior have been about establishing home and family. It opens up…