Passing Fancy

This article is about the 1933 film. For the band, see A Passing Fancy. For the Frasier episode, see A Passing Fancy (Frasier).
Passing Fancy
Den Obinata and Takeshi Sakamoto in Passing Fancy
Directed byYasujirō Ozu
Written byYasujirō Ozu (alias James Maki) (story)
Tadao Ikeda (screenplay)
Produced byShochiku Kinema
StarringTakeshi Sakamoto
Nobuko Fushimi
Den Obinata
Chouko Iida
CinematographyHideo Shigehara
Shojiro Sugimoto
Edited byKazuo Ishikawa
Distributed byShochiku Company (1933)
The Criterion Collection (2008)
Release date
  • September 7, 1933 (1933-09-07)
Running time
101 min.
CountryJapan
Languagessilent film
Japanese intertitles

Passing Fancy (出来ごころ, Dekigokoro) is a 1933 silent movie produced by Shochiku Company, directed by Japanese director Yasujirō Ozu and starring Takeshi Sakamoto, Nobuko Fushimi, Den Obinata and Chouko Iida.

It won the Kinema Junpo Award for best film, the second of three consecutive years an Ozu film won, following I Was Born, But... and preceding A Story of Floating Weeds.[1][2][3]

Ozu regular Chishū Ryū has a small role towards the end of the film as a fellow passenger on board a ship.

  1. ^ "Kinema Junpo Awards for 1934". IMDb. Retrieved 2012-10-12.
  2. ^ "Kinema Junpo Awards for 1933". IMDb. Retrieved 2012-10-12.
  3. ^ "Kinema Junpo Awards for 1935". IMDb. Retrieved 2012-10-12.