I Flunked, But...
About I Flunked, But...
College student Takahashi and four friends plan to cheat by writing notes on his shirt. The landlady sends the shirt to the laundry, and they fail. Roommates who pass the test graduate and then cannot find jobs. They end up wishing they were back at school with Takahashi and the others, who have to return.
Cast & crew
More about I Flunked, But...
Yasujirō Ozu directed, and the English Wikipedia credits the screenplay to Akira Fushimi and Ozu, while Wikidata lists only Ozu. The story inverts his earlier I Graduated, But..., and Wikidata names Tokyo as the narrative setting.
Themes
Background
It sits with several Ozu silents from this period on student life, and it reverses the outcome of I Graduated, But....
Reviews
A Kinema Junpo critic said the film lacked the social bite of some of Ozu's earlier pictures. David Bordwell has noted Harold Lloyd and Ernst Lubitsch as influences.
Look
Hideo Shigehara photographed the Shochiku silent.
Notes
- The part was the first major role for Chishū Ryū.
- Takahashi has a poster for Robert Milton's 1929 film Charming Sinners on his bedroom wall.
- Tatsuo Saitō and Kinuyo Tanaka are in the credited cast. The Wikipedia plot does not assign Takahashi to a named actor.
- Wikidata also lists Hideo Shigehara as editor.
Scenes
- The landlady sends out the shirt on which the exam notes were written, and the cheaters fail.
Influenced by
- Harold Lloyd comedies, as noted by David Bordwell
- Ernst Lubitsch, as noted by David Bordwell
- Ozu's I Graduated, But...
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (落第はしたけれど (1930).webm)
