What Did the Lady Forget? (淑女は何を忘れたか, Shukujo wa nani wo wasureta ka) is a 1937 Japanese film directed by Yasujiro Ozu.
Komiya (Tatsuo Saito) is an affluent, respected and good-natured professor of medicine at a Tokyo university. He has a wife, Tokiko (Sumiko Kurishima), though they are without children. His niece from Osaka, Setsuko (Michiko Kuwano) comes recently for a visit to Tokyo. A liberated young lady who smokes and drinks, Setsuko finds ...
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What Did the Lady Forget? (淑女は何を忘れたか, Shukujo wa nani wo wasureta ka) is a 1937 Japanese film directed by Yasujiro Ozu.
Komiya (Tatsuo Saito) is an affluent, respected and good-natured professor of medicine at a Tokyo university. He has a wife, Tokiko (Sumiko Kurishima), though they are without children. His niece from Osaka, Setsuko (Michiko Kuwano) comes recently for a visit to Tokyo. A liberated young lady who smokes and drinks, Setsuko finds her aunt Tokiko's interference and control of her habits bossy and annoying.
Tokiko gets her husband to go for his usual weekend golfing trip, though Komiya is not keen to go. So as not to vex his wife, Komiya leaves anyway, and writes a postcard telling his wife the weather and the golfing trip was fine, but instead holes himself up at the residence of his student, Okada, and visits a Ginza bar. Unfortunately the weather turns bad later, and Komiya worries about his lie being exposed. Meanwhile, Setsuko tails her uncle and insists on Komiya...
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