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The Only Son
JAPAN · 1936

The Only Son

Yasujiro Ozu
family drama mother-son relationship urban life sacrifice social class
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Synopsis

A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before sound motion pictures became commercially practical. Reliable synchronization was difficult to achieve with the early sound-on-disc systems, and amplificati

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