Ready at Dawn does a great job of interspersing small jolts of
the plot during action sequences to help keep players fully involved though so even while you're pushing for the next big cut scene you're still getting a great story in the meantime.
The
plot here is entirely predictable but as with Ozu's family dramas the real meat is in the film's visual aesthetic and cultural context, at once captured most intensely
during a scene where Teresa witnesses a financial crisis - related suicide with all the suddenness of an Alfonso Cuaron
action sequence and Chen captures her jaded shock by shooting her from low angles through light - heavy filters.