Saturday | October 2, 1999 6:00 pm

I Was Born, But...
(Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo)

Live Musical Accompaniment
Screening on Film

Directed by Yasujiro Ozu.
With Tatsuo Saitô, Tomio Aoki, Mitsuko Yoshikawa.
Japan, 1932, 16mm, black & white, silent, 89 min.

Generally recognized as Ozu’s first major film, this moving comedy/drama was a great success both critically and financially and was his first to top the Kinema Jumpo poll as best Japanese film of the year. One of cinema’s finest works about children, the film begins as a riotous Keatonesque comedy but quickly becomes darker as it portrays a classic confrontation between the innocence of childhood and the hypocrisy of adults. "One of the wisest and most charming films ever made." (Georgia Brown, Village Voice)