Passing Fancy

Passing Fancy , Dekigokoro? is a 1933 silent movie produced by Shochiku Company, directed by Japanese director Yasujir Ozu and starring Takeshi Sakamoto, Nobuko Fushimi, Den Obinata and Chouko Iida.

Two Tokyo coworkers at a brewery, Kihachi Takeshi Sakamoto and Jiro Den Obinata, go and visit a rkyoku performance. On leaving the theater, they happen to chance on a girl Harue Nobuko Fushimi, who is destitute with no place to go. Jiro is relunctant to help her out but Kihachi takes a fancy on the pretty girl and decides to give her a place to stay at the house of a restaurant owner friend of his, Otome Chouko Iida. She helps out at the place and Otome soon takes a liking for her.Kihachi, an illiterate widower, becomes enamored of the girl and begins grooming himself so that she will take notice of him. Jiro, who is younger and in his thirties, thinks of Harue as nothing but trouble and treats her rudely. Kihachi has a young son Tomio Tokkan Kozo who is a fine student at an elementary school. Harue confides in Kihachi that she thinks him nothing more than a kind uncle. Meanwhile, Otome goes to Kihachi and asks him to talk Jiro into marrying Harue. Kihachi is upset that no one thinks Harue a suitable match for himself, but he speaks to Jiro nonetheless, but Jiro gruffly rejects Kihachi. ........

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