Ozu: Volume 3 in April
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09-02-2006 22:37 | 3958 views
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Dave Foster
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Tartan Video have announced the UK DVD release of Ozu: Volume 3 for 24th April 2006 priced at £39.99. Ozu’s status as a world cinema giant originates in his deceptively quiet but dramatically poignant film-making. In this third boxset of Japanese masterpieces, the three films focus on the imminent transformation of family and cultural life in post-war Tokyo, showing Ozu as the great humanist that is at the heart of the man and his work.
Tokyo Twilight (1957) (B&W, 141 mins)
Two sisters are living with their father. The eldest daughter has left her husband and come back home with her child. The youngest is pregnant. When their mother, long considered dead, suddenly appears, all lives are thrown into turmoil. Her confession that she’s been living with another man, leads to a destructive path of despair and isolation. Ozu’s darkest masterpiece focussing on the disintegration of family life.
DVD notes by Doug Cummings
Equinox Flower (1958) (colour, 118 mins)
Ozu’s first film in colour which characteristically he uses sparingly, but especially effective with interiors and costumes. A father is worked up over the impending marriage of his eldest daughter, who has fallen in love with someone he has not approved of. A lyrical film with Ozu’s familiar theme of generational conflict as Japanese tradition faces the challenge of Western influences, a atmosphere of personal and cultural transition. The flower of the title, an amaryllis, is rendered in brilliant red.
DVD notes by Doug Cummings
Good Morning (1959) (colour, 94 mins)
An update of Ozu’s slient film, I Was Born, But…. Set in a Tokyo suburb, two boys play silent games with everyone around them because their parents won’t buy them a television, fearing wider destructive effects on family life; effects of Westernised influences that are creeping into the entire community. It’s also a celebration of the art of small talk as a means of interaction as reflected in a number of scenes with other neighbourhood residents: including a jobless man, and a lonely grandmother. An enchanting, lively portrait of the divergent shades of humanity.
DVD notes by Nick Wrigley
Presented in original Academy ratio, DVD extras are limited to trailers and restoration featurettes while the set includes a booklet with film notes by recognised Ozu experts.
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Tokyo Twilight (1957) (B&W, 141 mins)
Two sisters are living with their father. The eldest daughter has left her husband and come back home with her child. The youngest is pregnant. When their mother, long considered dead, suddenly appears, all lives are thrown into turmoil. Her confession that she’s been living with another man, leads to a destructive path of despair and isolation. Ozu’s darkest masterpiece focussing on the disintegration of family life.
DVD notes by Doug Cummings
Equinox Flower (1958) (colour, 118 mins)
Ozu’s first film in colour which characteristically he uses sparingly, but especially effective with interiors and costumes. A father is worked up over the impending marriage of his eldest daughter, who has fallen in love with someone he has not approved of. A lyrical film with Ozu’s familiar theme of generational conflict as Japanese tradition faces the challenge of Western influences, a atmosphere of personal and cultural transition. The flower of the title, an amaryllis, is rendered in brilliant red.
DVD notes by Doug Cummings
Good Morning (1959) (colour, 94 mins)
An update of Ozu’s slient film, I Was Born, But…. Set in a Tokyo suburb, two boys play silent games with everyone around them because their parents won’t buy them a television, fearing wider destructive effects on family life; effects of Westernised influences that are creeping into the entire community. It’s also a celebration of the art of small talk as a means of interaction as reflected in a number of scenes with other neighbourhood residents: including a jobless man, and a lonely grandmother. An enchanting, lively portrait of the divergent shades of humanity.
DVD notes by Nick Wrigley
Presented in original Academy ratio, DVD extras are limited to trailers and restoration featurettes while the set includes a booklet with film notes by recognised Ozu experts.
Menus follow....