Judith F. Rosenberg is well known to PFA audiences, who have appreciated her sensitive piano accompaniment for silent films for the last five years. She has been artist/lecturer and music director of the dance department at Mills College since 1973.

(Tokyo no onna). This was one of Ozu's “quickies”-something to think about as the film haunts you long after it's over. Against the backdrop of the Depression, a young typist, Chikako, resorts to prostitution to put her younger brother Ryoichi through college; when he finds out, tragedy ensues. Reminiscent, in its theme of women's sacrifice, of the social-realist films that Naruse began making at this time, and Mizoguchi a bit later, Woman of Tokyo could not be more different, because Ozu works melodrama in mysterious ways. In the foreground, a boiling teapot, a policeman's white gloves; an apple Ryoichi innocently peels, so hard won. The screen is a vessel and a plane; things cry, while way in the background, Chikako gamely puts on her evening face. Ozu stops everything for an extended clip from the American film If I Had a Million that, for a minute, crystallizes everything. Then the mystery continues.