Fold your hands child, you walk like a peasant

Yasujirô Ozu, Chishû Ryû, Shima Iwashita, Mariko Okada, Shin'ichirô Mikami and other cast and crew members on the set of Sanma no aji, from the film’s trailers

"The father or mother sitting alone in the now empty house is an image common enough in Ozu's films to serve as an epitome. These people are no longer themselves. We know they will somehow survive, but we also know at what cost. They are not bitter, they know this is the way of their world, but they are bereft. The reason they impel our sympathy is that they are neither victims of their own flaws, nor the prey of a badly organized society; they are the casualties of things as they are, the way that life is. And here we are, all of us, similar casualties." -- Donald Richie, Ozu

Keiji Sada in each of the four films he made with Yasujirô Ozu: Higanbana, Ohayô, Akibiyori and Sanma no aji