(HIJOSEN NO ONNA, Yasujiro Ozu, Japan 1933, 100 min.)

“This silent gangster picture about a typist determined to make her criminal boyfriend go straight is one of the most striking of Ozu’s American-style silents. It stars the great Kinuyo Tanaka, who later played the title role in Mizoguchi’s The Life of Oharu and subsequently became a director herself (the first Japanese woman to do so)”—Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader. Live piano by Philip C. Carli.