An Inn at Osaka

An Inn at Osaka rarely seen outside Japan follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo Mr Mito who is demoted to the Osaka office He takes a room at a small inn and tries to rebuild his life Notable for its exquisite framing and cinematography An Inn at Osaka allows its complicated plotlines to disappear behind the minutiae of penury and humiliation that Mito and others suffer during the postwar economic and social reconstruction