
Feeling the position to be beneath him, a college graduate turns down a receptionist job, but soon finds it necessary to fool his mother and fiancé into thinking that he is employed..


If you have ever been totally broke but too embarrassed to tell your family, you need to watch this. It is worth it just to see that people in 1929 were dealing with the same dumb ego problems we have now. History buffs will love it, but if you cannot stand silent movies or fragments where half the story is missing, y...

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Yasujirō Ozu

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"If you have ever been totally broke but too embarrassed to tell your family, you need to watch this. It is worth it just to see that people in 1929 were dealing with the same dumb ego problems we have now. History buffs will love it, but if you cannot stand silent movies or fragments where half the story is missing, you will probably hate it. It is very short because most of the film is lost. So, we have this guy, Tetsuo. He just finished college and he thinks he is the smartest man in the roo..."
Yoshirô Aramaki, Hiroshi Shimizu
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