Yasujiro Ozu’s muse, Setsuko Hara, adds her memorable luminescence to Mikio Naruse’s sly critique of love, estrangement, and marriage in middle-class Japan. Office drone Okamoto (Ken Uehara) and his wife, Michiyo (Hara), drag themselves through the days, with Okamoto finding periodic joy in shiny new shoes and Michiyo, alas, finding it nowhere at all. The arrival of Michiyo’s flirty niece, however, casts more ominous spells. Naruse’s first adaptation of the work of feminist author Fumiko Hayashi, Repast is more vividly described by its secondary title, A Married Life, richly capturing a fading love and the habits, and hope, that keep such loves alive.