Ozu's second talkie is a splendid satire on Tokyo's bourgeoisie. Into the home of a spoiled society lady and her cowed husband, a professor of medicine, comes the professor's niece, a brash, thoroughly modern girl from Osaka. Discovering that the professor's golf games take place on the 19th hole, she follows him to the Ginza district of Tokyo and insists on participating in the fun. "Up to now Ozu's main subject had been the parts of Tokyo occupied by laborers and lower level white-collar workers, but here he focussed on a posh residential area of the city, Kojimachi, and lightly satirized its citizens. Ozu at this time had himself just moved from Fukagawa, an old area in the heart of Tokyo, to Takanawa, one of its more affluent suburbs. He claimed this had nothing to do with the picture he made. In any event, from this film onward monied suburbanites became his primary subject. "Another reason for the change was Ozu's wholehearted (at last) conversion to the virtues of talkies. He saw an opportunity here to capture the flavor of suburban housewife chatter and put it to comic use. For contrast, he brought in the character Setsuko, with her thick Osaka accent and the brash manners of a spoiled merchant's daughter of that city.... "By the way, what did the lady forget?" --David Owens, Japan Society