The Moon Has Risen

For her second film, Kinuyo Tanaka directed a script by legendary collaborator and mentor Yasujiro Ozu. Though informed by Ozu’s singular take on familial relationships, THE MOON HAS RISEN also possesses Tanaka’s lively and elegant comedic sensibility in its depiction of a widower (Chishu Ryu) who lives with his three daughters (Hisako Yamane, Yoko Sugi, and Mie Kitahara). As several young men court the women, their father is forced to confront—with amusing bewilderment—Japanese society’s rapidly evolving mores.