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A widow sends her only son away to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him, finding him a poor school teacher with a wife and son.
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"While having the privileged importance of being great director Yasujiro Ozu's first sound film, The Only Son also remains important for its emergence as the first truly "Ozu" work, in the sense that the very particular cinematic and thematic elements which make up what he is best known for coalesce together in a thoroughly emotional experience. The story is simple enough, as Ozu usually tells. A widow attempts to save enough money for her son to go to college in Tokyo. She visits him years later, only to discover that he is not living the kind of sophisticated, well-off life sh..."
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This was Yasujirô Ozu's first feature film with all-synchronous dialogue.
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A widow sends her only son away to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him, finding him a poor school teacher with a wife and son.