Gandalf: Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.
Simple in form yet complex in nature. In this exquisite confluence of infinite and infinitesimal, Ozu calmly observes human nature and inevitable erosion of familial relations in rapidly changing world, with restriction, respect, and poignancy; time is his most potent weapon.