Post Description

Japan
Drama
112 minuten

geregisseerd door Yasujiro Ozu
met Chishu Ryu, Shima Iwashita en Shinichir� Mikami

Shuhei Hirayama is een weduwnaar die samen leeft met zijn 24 jaar oude dochter. Hij begint zich langzaam te realiseren dat zij haar eigen leven moet leiden en zich niet verplicht moet voelen om hem de rest van zijn leven te verzorgen, zodat ze uiteindelijk te oud zal zijn om nog te trouwen. Hij gaat op zoek naar een geschikte huwelijkskandidaat.

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SANMA NO AJI (1962)

AKAs:

The Taste of Saury (Japan) (informal literal English title)


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Criterion Collection # 446

DVD Release Date: September 30, 2008

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Director: Yasujiro Ozu

Description:
Yasujiro Ozu's final film was also his final masterpiece, the gently heartbreaking story of a man's dignified resignation to both life's ever-shifting currents and society�s gradual modernization. Though widower Shuhei Hirayama (Ozu's frequent leading man Chishu Ryu) has been living comfortably for years with his grown daughter, a series of events leads him to accept and encourage her marriage and departure. As elegantly composed and achingly tender as any of the Japanese master's films, An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji) is one of cinema's fondest farewells.

READ:
An Autumn Afternoon: Ozu's Diaries
by Donald Richie
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Format: NTSC

DVD Size: 7.77 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 113 minutes

Type: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Sound (main feature): Japanese

Subtitles: optional English


DISC FEATURES:

# New, restored high-definition digital transfer.
# New audio commentary featuring film scholar David Bordwell, author of Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema.
# Excerpts from 'Yasujiro Ozu and The Taste of Sake,' a 1978 French television program looking back on Ozu's career, featuring critics Michel Ciment and Georges Perec.
# Theatrical trailer.
# New and improved English subtitle translation.



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