Footnote:
Fully illustrated booklet including an essay by Professor Joan Mellen, archival writing by John Gillett and Lindsay Anderson and a biography of Yasujiro Ozu by Tony Rayns
Remastered in 4K with an uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Enthält: An Introduction to Tokyo Story (2020, 26 min): Asian-cinema expert Tony Rayns provides an introduction to Ozu’s most acclaimed film
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941, 105 min): following the death of her husband, Mrs Toda realises she has been left with sizeable debts and an extended family reluctant to support her
Talking with Ozu (1993, 40 min): a tribute to the legendary director featuring filmmakers Lindsay Anderson, Claire Denis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Aki Kaurismäki, Stanley Kwan, Paul Schrader and Wim Wenders
Furnival and Son (1948, 19 min): recounts the difficult choice a recently demobbed serviceman has to make between an unexpected job offer elsewhere, and resuming his pre-war position as his father’s right-hand man in their small cutlery firm, Furnival and Son
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Spielfilm$IJapan. 1953
Sprachfassung: Japanisch
Untertitel: Englisch