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A young boy in this film is grounded after he makes a mess painting his baseball bat, after which his adult cousin teases him for crying during the incident. A rare instance of camera movement in this film occurs as two central characters stroll down a sidewalk, before two separate individual shots when one of them instead chooses to walk on the unpaved road. In this film, a woman’s aunt claims a man has a mouth like (*) Gary Cooper in an effort to introduce the two. This film’s protagonist is upset by her father’s enthusiastic greeting of a woman at a Noh theater performance. In this film’s final scene, which takes place at a sake bar, Shukichi admits that he never intended to marry Mrs. Miwa. For 10 points, name this film in which Noriko’s father convinces her to finally leave home and get married, (10[1])directed by Yasujiro Ozu. ■END■

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