Seeing this at Film Forum today might come to be one of the greatest film going experiences of my life. As perfect as a film can get. Every shot, every line, every character, every note. Nothing is left to waste, everything to its full potential. The ultimate film.
Ozu’s most subversive and unpredictable. Complex and challenging, Takamine and Tanaka take the titular sisters through incredibly different and effecting paths. The overarching theme of cancer and disease is put to great use when the characters slowly come to realize what the actual infectious thing in their life is, breaking them down and slowly killing them. Ozu employs some shocking camera moves here, one especially at a temple that had me leaping out of my seat. The return to the…