The Lady and the Beard
(Shukujo to Hige)
Live Musical Accompaniment
Screening on Film
Screening on Film
Directed by Yasujiro Ozu.
With Tokihiko Okada, Satoko Date, Choko Iida.
Japan, 1931, 35mm, black & white, silent, 75 min.
With Tokihiko Okada, Satoko Date, Choko Iida.
Japan, 1931, 35mm, black & white, silent, 75 min.
The Lady and the Beard begins as a knockabout, vulgar comedy but shades into melancholy and pathos. The “beard” of the title belongs to Okajima, a kendo sword fencer and collegian who cannot find a job in Depression-era Japan. The beard comes off when “the lady”—a typist he has saved from a mugging—convinces Okajima it’s a hindrance to gainful employment. Even clean-shaven, he cannot shrug off trouble: the new woman in his life turns out to be a jewel thief. The Lady and the Beard is fascinating for its “sexual audacity” and for its complex critique of both westernization and narrow-minded Japanese nationalism.
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