at the script phase of the censorship process, the censors demanded that the character of aunt masa, who at one point finds a lost change purse on the ground and keeps it as a kind of good-luck charm, should be shown handing over the purse to the police. ozu responded by turning the situation, in the finished film, into a kind of running gag in which shukichi repeatedly (and futilely) urges his sister to turn the purse in to the police. this change has been called "a mocking kind of partial compliance with the censorship."