"We are ninjas, we are not geishas!" proclaims the female British rock band Frank Chickens. Still, their leader, Kazuko Hohki, has come home to Tokyo to marry, to please her mother. Suddenly, we are in Ozu territory. But Kazuko's mother is a priest in the religion known as House of Development, which draws elder women to its creed of laughter, faith, and frankness. And these ladies are not geishas, either. With Exhibiting Signs of Age in the museum's Theater Gallery and the films of Yasujiro Ozu coming to PFA later this month, it seems a particularly appropriate time to bring back this delightful, quietly subversive film by acclaimed documentarian Kim Longinotto, whose new work The Day I Will Never Forget screens November 13 in the Margaret Mead Festival.

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