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AUTUMN AFTERNOON
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This profoundly simple and moving film examines changing familial relationships in an increasingly Americanized postwar Tokyo. With his unmistakable and inimitable style, Ozu has created a serenely beautiful film which tells the timeless, moving tale of a father giving up his only daughter in marriage. Both humorous and heartbreaking, An Autumn Afternoon was Ozu's 53rd and last film. In Japanese with English subtitles. Yasujiro Ozu---Japan---1962---113 mins.
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BROTHERS & SISTERS OF TODA FAM
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"Made between October 1940 and February 1941, Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family can be seen as a summation of the films Ozu had been making almost from the beginning of his directorial career...Brother and Sisters maintains...class emphasis by focusing on initially wealthy characters who, through the death by heart attack of the family patriarch, are left poor and debt-ridden...this film marks an important step in the stylistic development of Ozu's cinema. One can see, for instance, the seeds of his elliptical narrative construction being sown at the beginning...Brothers and Sisters was also significant to Ozu's career in commercial terms...the film was a substantial box-office hit, Ozu's first" (Adam Bingham, Senses of Cinema). In Japanese with optional English and Chinese subtitles. Yasujiro Ozu---Japan---1941---105 mins.
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DRAGNET GIRL (1933)
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Before he became internationally known for sedate family dramas, Yasujiro Ozu made this gangster thriller about a boxer turned crook who is torn between a good girl and a sexy tramp. Ozu barely remembers making this film, but it's pretty unforgettable, full of distinctly un-Ozu, almost Sternbergian, stylistic flourishes. Contains a special treat: the only gunshot fired in Ozu’s entire oeuvre. Silent.
Yasujiro Ozu---Japan---1933---100 mins.
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EARLY SUMMER (OZU)
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Ozu gracefully portrays the conflicts among three generations in this story of a young woman being pressured by her family to marry the man of their choice.
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END OF SUMMER
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Ozu examines the difficulties faced by a family as they struggle to adapt their traditional values to a rapidly changing post-war Japan. A sublime, bittersweet elegy for a vanishing world, The End of Summer is beautifully shot in muted color, elegantly acted and masterfully directed. In Japanese with English subtitles. Yasujiro Ozu---Japan---1961---103 mins.
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FLAVOR OF GREEN TEA OVER RICE
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A man with very simple tastes and habits meets with growing exasperation from his more sophisticated wife. She treats him with increasing disrespect, and nearly has an affair, but something changes her attitude and she returns to him with an appreciation for his simplicity and reliability. Yasujiro Ozu---Japan---1952---115 mins.
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GOOD MORNING (OZU)
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In this biting comedy, Yasujiro Ozu exposes the hypocrisy of the adult world. When a father (Chishu Ryu, Tokyo Story) refuses to buy a television set for his sons, the two small boys take a vow of silence, refusing to say "good morning" to a neighbor. Soon the gossipy apartment complex where they live is in an uproar--the boys' mother must be holding a grudge against her neighbors. Written by Ozu and longtime collaborator Kogo Noda, this witty film makes keen observations about communication and familial relationships. The charming performances of the young leads and a cast of Ozu regulars make it "an all-around pleasure" (The Faber Companion to Foreign Films). In Japanese Yasujiro Ozu---Japan---1959---93 mins.
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HEN IN THE WIND
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An impoverished dressmaker patiently awaits her soldier husband's return in Yasujiro Ozu's tragic postwar drama. As work slows and Tokiko (Kinuyo Tanaka) is forced to sell off her belongings, her money troubles grow too great to ignore. When her young son falls ill and Tokiko cannot afford treatment, she makes the difficult decision to seek work in a brothel. But when her husband returns, he reacts with a savage, physical violence that's atypical for Ozu. This bleak, compassionate drama is frequently likened to the director's own Woman of Tokyo. In Japanese with English subtitles. Yasujiro Ozu---Japan---1948---84 mins.
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HOSTEL IN TOKYO
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In this silent Ozu film, a working-class father and his two young sons look for a job and eventually find fleeting companionship with a widow and her little girl. Silent with Chinese and German titles. Yasujiro Ozu---Japan---1935---82 mins.
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LATE AUTUMN ( AKIBIYORI )
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One of the many beautiful, intimate portraits of family sacrifice from celebrated Japanese auteur Yasujiro Ozu, featuring regular cast members Setsuko Hara, Sayoko Tsuka, and Chisu Ryu. In a story not dissimilar from Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, a lovely widow worries about her aging, unmarried daughter. Three older suitors discuss the possibility of one man marrying the girl so that the other two might have an opportunity to wed the widow. In Japanese with English subtitles. Yasujiro Ozu---Japan---1960---128 mins.
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LATE OZU
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One of the great masters of Japanese cinema, Yasujiro Ozu directed 54 films over the course of his long career, most of which dealt with the lives of lower-middle class families and the effects of modernization on traditional Japan. This collection includes five of his overshadowed, late works: Early Spring (1956, 145 mins.), in which a married, middle-aged office worker succumbs to an adulterous relationship; Tokyo Twilight (1957, 141 mins.), a powerful film about the traumas plaguing a father and his two daughters; Equinox Flower (1958, 118 mins.), a warm comedy about a daughter who defies her arranged marriage (also Ozu's first color picture); Late Autumn (1960, 131 mins.), following three suitors as they pine over a widow who is preoccupied with her aging, unwed daughter; and The End o f Summer (1961, 103 mins.), a bittersweet elegy for a vanishing world as evinced by one family's struggles with post-war modernization. Throughout these films, Ozu's utilization of long takes and offscreen space is nothing Yasujiro Ozu---Japan---1956-1961---638 mins.
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LATE SPRING (CRITERION)
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A father feels he is keeping his daughter from marriage; when she is erroneously told that her father is thinking of re-marrying, she agrees to an offer.
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MOTHER SHOULD BE BE LOVED
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Based on a novel by Shuutarou Komiya, this delicate family melodrama from Yasujiro Ozu involves a wife and mother (Mitsuko Yoshikawa) who loses her husband and must raise their two sons alone. Years later, when one of the boys realizes he is actually a stepchild, he rejects his family and sets out on his own. The reels that contained the original framing story have been lost. Silent with Japanese intertitles and optional English subtitles. Yasujiro Ozu---Japan---1934---73 mins.
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ONLY SON / THERE WAS A FATHER: TWO FILMS BY YASUJIRO OZU
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Two rarely seen films by Yasujiro Ozu, both set in the domestic sphere and meditating on the challenges facing widowed parents in a changing Japan.
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OZU YASUJIRO SET ( TAIWAN )
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This set includes three of Yasujiro Ozu's postwar family dramas. In The Munekata Sisters (1950, 112 mins.), Mariko Munekata (Hideko Takamine) falls for a man her unhappily married sister (Kinuyo Tanaka) had loved before he left Japan years before. In The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952, 115 mins.), a man with very simple tastes and habits meets with growing exasperation from his more sophisticated wife. She treats him with increasing disrespect, and nearly has an affair, but something changes her attitude. Ozu's timeless classic Early Spring (1956, 144 mins.) is, like most of his films, a deceptively simple family drama. Featuring regular actors Haruko Sugimura and Chishu Ryu, Ozu patiently and artfully communicates his story of a middle-aged office worker who succumbs to an adulterous relationship. Utilizing many of his signature techniques--long takes, low-angle, stationary shooting--Ozu's film brims with warmth, humor, and sadness. In Japanese with traditional Chinese subtitles and NO English subtitles. Yasujiro Ozu---Japan---1950/1952/1956---336 mins.
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SILENT OZU 3 FAMILY COMEDIES
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A collection of three silent shomin-geki--or social comedies dealing with working class families--from the early career of Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu. The formation of Ozu's disciplined style is evident in Tokyo Chorus (1931, 90 mins.), a domestic drama peppered with amusing sequences. It tells the story of a father and family confronted with the news he will not be receiving a much-needed bonus. I Was Born, But... (1932, 90 mins.), "the most important Japanese film of 1932" (David A. Cook, A History of Narrative Film), is told from the point of view of two young brothers. Though their primary concerns lie in avoiding bullies and nagging teachers, priorities change when they learn their charming father is being exploited by higher-ups at work. In Passing Fancy (1933, 100 mins.), Takeshi Saka moto stars in a bittersweet story of a father falling in love with a younger woman after his wife's untimely death. Naturally, his son rebels, and Ozu heightens these nuanced emotions with an increasingly sophisticated visual style. Silent with new, optional scores by Donald Sosin. Japanese intertitles with optio nal Yasujiro Ozu---Japan---1931-1933---280 mins.
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STORIES OF FLOATING WEEDS
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Yasujiro Ozu was so touched by one story in particular that he filmed it twice, producing two studied, subtle masterpieces of Japanese cinema. The silent A Story of Floating Weeds (1934, 89 mins.) and its remake, Floating Weeds (1959, 128 mins.), tell the story of a group of traveling actors who visits a town where the leading actor's ex-mistress lives with their son. His present lover is understandably jealous of his hidden past and chooses to sabotage the reunion. The latter version features brilliant color cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa. In Japanese with English subtitles. Yasujiro Ozu---Japan---1934/1959---128 mins.
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TOKYO STORY
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Ozu's deceptively simple story of an elderly couple who travels to Tokyo to visit their married children, only to be politely ushered off to a hot springs resort.
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WHAT DID THE LADY FORGET?
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One of Ozu's first talkies, Shukujo wa Nani o Wasuretaka tells the comic tale of a professor and his socialite wife who are looking after a forward-thinking niece from Osaka. One afternoon, the professor leaves for a golf outing. His wife becomes suspicious of his activities, however, when she sees their niece return home drunk from a geisha house with a conflicting story. In the spirit of full disclosure, this leads to an instance of spousal abuse that, when linked to the liberated schoolgirl's presence, embodies a common Ozu theme--modernity's collision with tradition. Starring Sumiko Kurishima, Tatsuo Saito, and Kayoko Kuwano. In Japanese with English Yasujiro Ozu---Japan---1937---71 mins.
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