“We have had everything taken away from us, and yet we have all learned how to survive. That is why, in the ballroom circuit, it is so obvious that if you have captured the great white way of living, or looking, or dressing, or speaking - you is a marvel.”
Simple in form yet complex in nature. In this exquisite confluence of infinite and infinitesimal, Ozu calmly observes human nature and inevitable erosion of familial relations in rapidly changing world, with restriction, respect, and poignancy; time is his most potent weapon.