Ozu's second talkie is a splendid satire on Tokyo's bourgeoisie. Into the home of a society lady and her cowed husband, a professor of medicine, comes the professor's niece, a thoroughly modern girl from Osaka. Discovering that her uncle's golf games take place on the 19th hole, she follows him to the Ginza district and insists on participating in the fun. "From this film onward, monied suburbanites became (Ozu's) primary subject...In his whole-hearted (at last) conversion to the virtues of talkies, he saw here an opportunity to capture the flavor of suburban housewife chatter and put it to comic use. For contrast, he brought in the character of Setsuko, with her thick Osaka accent and brash manners of a spoiled merchant's daughter of that city... By the way, what did the lady forget?" (David Owens)