Tokyo Chorus (Tôkyô no kôrasu). Yasujiro Ozu, 1931.
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Edition screened: Included in Criterion Eclipse Series 10: Silent Ozu: Three Family Comedies 3-DVD set, released 2008. Japanese intertitles with English subtitles, no dialogue track. Runtime approximately 90 minutes.
Summary: Callous indifference to animals.
Details:
1) At 32:48 the bratty kid tosses his puppy down roughly. No injury, but inappropriate.
2) After scooping up fish in the river with other boys, the same bratty kid drops his living fish down on the dirt road at 43:50. We return to the struggling fish briefly at 44:00.
