Director Mikio Naruse's earliest surviving film blends absurdist comedy, social commentary, and family melodrama. Characteristic of Naruse's early work, it is stylistically adventurous and exuberant, incorporating superimposition, rapid montage, and split-screen effects for psychological emphasis. These are counterbalanced by the hunched movements, repeated gestures, and diagonal blocking that would later become defining elements of Naruse's cinema. With English subtitles.