Three hours and fourty three minutes! Yet waaaaaay too simple for Tolkien's book! Where's my beloved part of Meriadoc and Peregrin together with Treebeard the Ent!! Where is the 'Get up, you tom fool of a took! Where in the name of wonder is Treebeard? I want him. Quick!' !!
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.