For virtually all Japanese film professionals, the first years after the end of the Pacific War were a difficult and disorienting period, as they were forced to confront a new kind of film censorship from the victorious Americans, one that seemed, with its alien values, in the words of Audie Bock, "to be trying to change the very fabric of Japanese daily life, from which they drew their subject matter." It was during this period that Ozu directed two films widely regarded as among his least typical: "Record of a Tenement Gentleman" ("Nagaya no Shinshiroku", 1947), which portrays the plight of homeless children, and "A Hen in the Wind" ("Kaze no Naka no Mendori", 1948), which deals with the problems of repatriated soldiers. These two works received, in Japan, much less popular and critical acceptance than his two wartime films.