Directed by Mikio Naruse
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Criterion Eclipse)
In this early Japanese silent short feature, an insurance salesman living in near-poverty with his wife and young child has a brush with disaster. While trying to convince a neighbor to buy one of his policies, his kid goes missing and is hit by a train. Is it justice for his earlier cruelties? Will the boy survive and get his toy airplane? It's too brief for any real character or plot development, but interesting as a glimpse of a great Japanese director at the start of his career.
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