I haven't seen such a desperate Ozu since "the wife of that night". In the post-war works, this is the only one that takes place in the cold winter, and it is the only one that goes to the missing member of the broken family. The married eldest daughter could not get along with her husband and went back to her father's house to find shelter; the unmarried second daughter suddenly became pregnant with a child and went to the nightclub every night to wait for the appearance of the unfaithful man. The mother, who had eloped with her father's subordinate for many years, suddenly broke into the life of the two daughters, but after the second daughter had aborted the child, she could no longer bear the cruel reality. Dramatic stories are rare in Ozu's late works, but his low-key handling has concocted a lot of classic scenes. The mother kept looking at her daughter on the farewell train in Tokyo, almost foresee the desolation of the old man's late life. Being open-minded to face life is the way out for Ozu's later works.
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