Ozu Rare Silent Film I Graduated, But ... (1929)

Only a few minutes survive of this essentially lost silent film of famed Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu called I Graduated, But ... From 1929. Consider this video like watching a longer than usual trailer for the film. :)

It's about a recent college graduate who can't find a job because he considers an entry level office job beneath him. This forces the wife to have to work to support them, which makes the husband jealous and angry. Finally he is humbled and goes back to the same business to ask for work again, he is hired, and the marriage is restored.

It's funny to see in the couple's apartment a poster for Harold Lloyd's Speedy, an American silent film that came out the year before! It shows you that the Japanese were well aware of American films, and admired them.

All the original title cards were lost for this silent film. There were replacement Japanese title cards but they had no English subtitles. To get the video under YouTube's required 10 minute time limit I had to remove those modern replacement cards in Japanese. My apologies to any viewer who can read Japanese! I wish I could have left them in.

ENJOY!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Ozu
• Japan
• silent film
• graduated

[KamiNoEka]

Thank you so much. I would love a version with cue cards. (maybe in two parts?)

[jovossuck123]

thanks so much again for this

[geoffolehane]

What I find especially fascinating about this is that it shows Japan prior to WWII

[who3697cares]

It's interesting (and somewhat funny) that the remaining footage of this movie becomes a surrealist film when put together. That joke aside, I wish the full-length cut of this could be found, it looks like another great Ozu.

[kacstereo]

DAIGAKU WA DETAKEREDO

thisnis the main title

[0casteloencantado0]

@KamiNoEka

intertitles, you mean?

[kinoglas]

J'admire les films d'Ozu. Merci.

[Masterpeewee]

Did Ozu have a Benshi (narator) for most of his films do you know?