Actor: Shima Iwashita, Shin-ichiro Mikami, Keiji Sada, Mariko Okada, Chishu Chishu Ryu Director: Yasujiro Ozu Genre:Drama Year: 1963 Studio:Alpha Video Length: 1 hours, 53 minutes Released:February 17, 2015 Rating: Not Rated Format: Blu-Ray (NTSC/Region 1) Misc: Color Language: English Subtitles : N/A
DESCRIPTION:
In his final film Yasujiro Ozu returns to the story of a widowed father giving up his favorite daughter in marriage, only to be left alone. The setting is the industrialized Japan of the 1960s, with small but intense traces of traditional Japanese culture and morals present in each of the characters and their struggles. The melancholy of the widowed father as he drinks away his sorrows at a favorite bar is portrayed in a sweet and gentle treatment, and the aesthetic beauty of the film's heightened color and peaceful pacing make this one of Ozu's most beautiful and touching films.
Actor: Shima Iwashita, Shin-ichiro Mikami, Keiji Sada, Mariko Okada, Chishu Chishu Ryu Director: Yasujiro Ozu Genre:Drama Year: 1963 Studio:Alpha Video Length: 1 hours, 53 minutes Released:February 17, 2015 Rating: Not Rated Format: Blu-Ray (NTSC/Region 1) Misc: Color Language: English Subtitles : N/A
DESCRIPTION:
In his final film Yasujiro Ozu returns to the story of a widowed father giving up his favorite daughter in marriage, only to be left alone. The setting is the industrialized Japan of the 1960s, with small but intense traces of traditional Japanese culture and morals present in each of the characters and their struggles. The melancholy of the widowed father as he drinks away his sorrows at a favorite bar is portrayed in a sweet and gentle treatment, and the aesthetic beauty of the film's heightened color and peaceful pacing make this one of Ozu's most beautiful and touching films.
