 On 9 September 1937, at a time when Shochiku was unhappy about Ozu's lack of box-office success, despite the praise he received from critics, the thirty-four-year-old Ozu was conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army.He spent two years in China in the Second Sino-Japanese War.He arrived in Shanghai on 27 September 1937 as part of an infantry regiment which handled chemical weapons.