Sentences with phrase «deft sight gags»

Directing from a screenplay by Kogo Noda, who went on to write many of Ozu's greatest films (including Tokyo Story, 1953, and Floating Weeds, 1959), Ozu fills the film with deft sight gags, many thanks to the antics of the son, yet there's undercurrent of desperation to the comedy.

For all the deft sight gags and comic situations — and there are plenty (including a comic symphony around the shenanigans of salarymen trying to count their bonus money away from prying eyes)-- there is also an undercurrent of anxiety running through the film as Shinji struggles to find work in Japan's depressed economy.