This movie takes a look at a very Westernized suburban Japan in the late 50's. It focuses mainly on the daily lives of a small community that is dramatically effected when two boys stop speaking in protest to their parents not giving them a tv.
(Japan, 1959, B&W, 94 mins, dir. Yasujiro Ozu, with Keiji Sada & Yoshiko Kuga, Japanese with English subtitles) (#12080)