Fighting Friends

Fighting Friends

14 mins | Comedy | July 5, 1929

The remaining fragments of an early Ozu film. It is the simple story of two friends who live together in a poor tenement and who share about everything in life (food, hopes, work...). Everything goes well until they gallantly rescue a young (and pretty) woman injured in a road accident. Since the lady has nowhere to go, the two good-hearted friends invite her to their home. She soon becomes their housemaid and they soon begin to seek her favors. Alas, she falls for a young student she has met in the neighborhood, much to the two friends' dismay.

Fighting Friends

14 mins | Comedy | July 5, 1929

Fighting Friends
The remaining fragments of an early Ozu film. It is the simple story of two friends who live together in a poor tenement and who share about everything in life (food, hopes, work...). Everything goes well until they gallantly rescue a young (and pretty) woman injured in a road accident. Since the lady has nowhere to go, the two good-hearted friends invite her to their home. She soon becomes their housemaid and they soon begin to seek her favors. Alas, she falls for a young student she has met in the neighborhood, much to the two friends' dismay.
IMDb rating 6.0
Producers Shochiku Co., Ltd.
Original title 和製喧嘩友達
Directors Yasujirō Ozu
Writers Kōgo Noda

Cast

Atsushi Watanabe

as Ryukichi

Hisao Yoshitani

as Yoshizo

Eiko Takamatsu

as Ogen

Ichiro Yuki

as Okamura

Tomoko Naniwa

as Omitsu