We had freedom within these guidelines to make these ideas work. Soderbergh definitely has created something intriguing and original, unfortunately it just doesn't quite work. The mah-jongg parlor of Tokyo Twilight might have come straight out of a s film, and the crowded neighborhood of Tokyo Story and the chock-a-block clotheslines of Ohayo recall the milieu of I Was Born, But Kasba Green View. For a while it was common to judge the late films as more significant, partly because almost no pre films were available for viewing.
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