Director Yasujirō Ozu's signature style is already evident in this early crime drama. Matching camera movements and recurring objects - desks, smokestacks, tea kettles, shop signs, tatami mats, and telephone wires - simultaneously ground narrative spaces in everyday reality and push them into a more abstract plane. As always in Ozu's work, formal precision and psychological acuity are carefully balanced with sly comedy. English subtitles available.