Passing Fancy (出来ごころ, Dekigokoro) is a 1933 silent movie produced by Shochiku Company, directed by Japanese director Yasujirō Ozu and starring Takeshi Sakamoto, Nobuko Fushimi, Den Obinata and Chouko Iida.
It won the Kinema Junpo Award for best film, the second of three consecutive years an Ozu film won, following I Was Born, But... and preceding A Story of Floating Weeds.
Ozu regular Chishū Ryū has a small role towards the end of the film as a fellow passenger on board a ship.Synopsis
Two Tokyo co-workers at a brewery, Kihachi (Takeshi Sakamoto) and Jiro (Den Obinata), go and visit a rōkyoku performance. On leaving the theater, they happen to chance on a girl Harue (Nobuko Fushimi), who is destitute with no place to go. Jiro is relunctant to help her out but Kihachi takes a fancy on the pretty girl and decides to give her a place to stay at the house of a restaurant owner friend of his, Otome (Chouko Iida). She helps out at the place and Otome soon takes a liking for her.
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