This homage to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Ozu′s birthday is paid by Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Hou tries to portray the real life of today′s Japan, just as Ozu did. Yoko, a documentary writer has a lover in Taiwan and is pregnant his baby. But she has no intention to marry him. She becomes friends with the proprietor of a secondhand bookstore, Hajime. The film traces the routines of the two. While Hou pays his homage to Ozu, he maintains his own perspective. Hou, as a stranger, puts some emphasis on the subway as one of the most typical spaces for the contemporary Japanese. Hou′s ′document of the present can be read on the context of what Ozu did in his films. Yoko′s profession of documentary writer, Hajime′s habit of recording all the sounds from the subway and the station tell what Hou intended in his film. Just as today′s Japanese people remember the old days from Ozus films, the baby in Yoko′s womb will remember Japan of 2003 from what its mother documented and all the sounds that Hajime recorded. (Kim Ji-seok)