I Was Born, But...

I Was Born, But...
Directed byYasujirō Ozu
Screenplay byAkira Fushimi
Geibei Ibushiya
Story byYasujirō Ozu
StarringTatsuo Saitō
Tomio Aoki
Mitsuko Yoshikawa
Hideo Sugawara
CinematographyHideo Shigehara
Edited byHideo Shigehara
Production
company
Release date
  • 3 June 1932 (1932-06-03) (Japan)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguagesSilent film
Japanese intertitles
Box office60,219 tickets (France)[1]
I Was Born, But... (1932) by Yasujirō Ozu

I Was Born, But... (大人の見る絵本　生れてはみたけれど, Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo, lit. "An Adult's Picture Book View — I Was Born, But...") is a 1932 black-and-white Japanese silent comedy film directed by Yasujirō Ozu.[2] It was the first of six Ozu films to win the Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film of the Year.[3] In 1959, Ozu loosely remade the film as Good Morning.[4]

The film's story centers on two young brothers whose faith in their father, an office worker, is shaken by what they perceive as his kowtowing to the boss.

  1. ^ "Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo (1980)". JP's Box-Office (in French). Retrieved 12 April 2022.
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  3. ^ "Kinema Junpo Awards in 1933 on IMDb". IMDB.
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