Yasujiro Ozu Collection Three - 3-DVD Set ( Tokyo boshoku / Higanbana / Ohayô ) ( Tokyo Twilight / Equinox Flower / Good Morning )

Yasujiro Ozu Collection Three - 3-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Tokyo boshoku / Higanbana / Ohayô
Alternate Title: Tokyo Twilight / Equinox Flower / Good Morning
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
342 min

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1957-1959 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Yasujiro Ozu

Written By:
Kôgo Noda
Yasujiro Ozu

Actors:
Ineko Arima ..... Akiko Sugiyama
Kamatari Fujiwara ..... Noodle vendor
Setsuko Hara ..... Takako Numata
Nobuo Nakamura ..... Sakae Aiba
Chishu Ryu ..... Shukichi Sugiyama
Kinzo Shin ..... Yasuo Numata
Haruko Sugimura ..... Shigeko Takeuchi
Teiji Takahashi ..... Noburo Kawaguchi
Masami Taura ..... Kenji Kimura
Isuzu Yamada ..... Kisako Soma
Sô Yamamura ..... Seki Sekiguchi
Shin Saburi ..... Wataru Hirayama
Kinuyo Tanaka ..... Kiyoko Hirayama
Ineko Arima ..... Setsuko Hirayama
Yoshiko Kuga ..... Fumiko Mikami
Keiji Sada ..... Masahiko Taniguchi
Teiji Takahashi ..... Shotaru Kondo
Miyuki Kuwano ..... Hisako Hirayama
Chishu Ryu ..... Shukichi Mikami
Chieko Naniwa ..... Hatsu Sasaki
Ryuji Kita ..... Heinosuke Horie
Nobuo Nakamura ..... Toshihiko Kawai
Mutsuko Sakura ..... Akemi
Toyoko Takahashi ..... Wakamatsu's owner
Fumio Watanabe ..... Ichiro Nagamura
Fujiko Yamamoto
Keiji Sada ..... Heichiro Fukui
Yoshiko Kuga ..... Setsuko Arita
Chishu Ryu ..... Keitaro Hayashi
Kuniko Miyake ..... Tamiko
Haruko Sugimura ..... Kikue Haraguchi
Koji Shitara ..... Minoru
Masahiko Shimazu ..... Isamu
Kyouko Izumi ..... Midori Maruyama
Toyoko Takahashi ..... Shige Okubo (as Toyo Takahashi)
Sadako Sawamura ..... Kayoko Fukui
Eijirô Tono ..... Tomizawa
Teruko Nagaoka ..... Mrs. Tomizawa
Eiko Miyoshi ..... Grandma Haraguchi
Haruo Tanaka ..... Haraguchi
Akira Oizumi ..... Akira Maruyama

Synopsis:

Tokyo boshoku ( Tokyo Twilight) :

Two sisters live with their father. The younger sister is embroiled in an affair and becomes pregnant. The elder sister has run away from her husband and returned with her child to her parent's home. Both sisters are astonished when their mother, long thought dead, turns up alive. The sisters are even more stunned when they learn what their mother's life has been.

Higanbana ( Equinox Flower):

Equinox Flower (Higanbana) is one of the most lighthearted of Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu's 'home dramas.' Motivating the plot is a young girl's impulsive decision to marry. The girl's father had always expected that his daughter would first ask his permission to be wed, and indeed wait until he'd chosen her husband for her. After all, it is not only family tradition, but a cultural 'must'. But this is the 1950s, and the girl proceeds with her plans on her own volition. Dad's anger and disappointment over not having been consulted is played out in long, uninterrupted takes, allowing actor Shin Saburi to run the emotional gamut from comic discomfiture to moving pathos. As in most of his best films, director Ozu also collaborated on the script of Equinox Flower.

Ohayô (Good Morning):

Yasujiro Ozu's Ohayo (Good Morning) is a comedy about a pair of boys who bring much trouble to their family and community by refusing to do very basic activities. The boys desire a television, but their father refuses. They are so insistent that the father eventually commands them to be quiet. They take him quite literally and refuse to speak at all, not even a typical polite morning greeting. Their impoliteness begins to weigh down both the family and the town as it goes against the ordered social structure of Japanese culture. The film is a remake of Ozu's earlier 1932 silent film I Was Born, But...

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 20 April, 2007.