Yasujiro Ozu Collection 1 - 3-DVD Set ( Tokyo Monogatari / Banshun / Bakushû ) ( Tokyo Story / Late Spring / Early Summer )

Yasujiro Ozu Collection 1 - 3-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Tokyo Monogatari / Banshun / Bakushû
Alternate Title: Tokyo Story / Late Spring / Early Summer
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:
385 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

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

Movie filmed in 1949-1953 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Yasujiro Ozu

Written By:
Kôgo Noda
Yasujiro Ozu
Kazuo Hirotsu

Actors:
Chishu Ryu ..... Shukishi Hirayama
Chieko Higashiyama ..... Tomi Hirayama
Setsuko Hara ..... Noriko
Haruko Sugimura ..... Shige Kaneko
Sô Yamamura ..... Same per
Kuniko Miyake ..... Fumiko
Kyôko Kagawa ..... Kyoko
Eijirô Tono ..... Sanpei Numata
Nobuo Nakamura ..... Kurazo Kaneko
Shirô Osaka ..... Osako, Shiro
Hisao Toake ..... Osamu Hattori
Teruko Nagaoka ..... Yone
Mutsuko Sakura ..... Patron of the Oden Restaurant
Toyoko Takahashi ..... Shukichi Hirayama's Neighbor
Toru Abe ..... Tetsudo-shokuin
Chishu Ryu ..... Shukichi Somiya
Setsuko Hara ..... Noriko Somiya
Yumeji Tsukioka ..... Aya Kitagawa
Haruko Sugimura ..... Masa Taguchi
Hohi Aoki ..... Katsuyoshi
Jun Usami ..... Shuichi Hattori
Kuniko Miyake ..... Akiko Miwa
Masao Mishima ..... Jo Onodera
Yoshiko Tsubouchi ..... Kiku
Yôko Katsuragi ..... Misako
Toyoko Takahashi ..... Shige
Jun Tanizaki ..... Seizo Hayashi
Chishu Ryu ..... Koichi
Chikage Awashima ..... Aya Tamura
Ichirô Sugai ..... Shukichi
Chieko Higashiyama ..... Shige
Haruko Sugimura ..... Tami Yabe
Kuniko Ikawa ..... Takako
Kan Nihonyanagi ..... Kenkichi Yabe (as Ryukan Nimoto)
Shûji Sano ..... Sotaro Satake
Toyoko Takahashi ..... Minoru
Seiji Miyaguchi ..... Isamu
Zen Murase
Isao Shirosawa

Synopsis:

Tokyo Monogatari (Tokyo Story):

As with much of director Yasujiro Ozu's work, a plot summary of this film does not do justice to the emotional power that Ozu lends to this sad, understated tale. An elderly couple, Shukichi Hirayama (Chishu Ryu) and Tomi Hirayama (Chieko Higashiyama), leaves their small coastal village in southern Japan to visit their married children in Tokyo. Their eldest son, Koichi (So Yamamura), a doctor running a clinic in a working-class part of town, is too busy to show them around town, and their eldest daughter is occupied with her beauty salon. Only their widowed daughter-in-law Noriko, played memorably by Setsuko Hara, is willing to take time off work to show the couple the sights of Tokyo. The older children arrange for their parents to visit Atami Hot Springs, but the unimpressed couple soon returns to Tokyo. Tomi stays with her daughter-in-law while Shukichi goes out drinking with some of his buddies, and the bunch complain about their vague sense of disappointment towards their children. Later, he stumbles into his daughter Shige's house late at night. On the way back to their village, tragedy strikes. The callous inattention that son and daughter paid to their parents becomes unamendable. Shige and Koichi quickly return to their busy lives in Tokyo after the funeral, as Noriko and youngest daughter Kyoko remain.

Banshun (Late Spring):

Veteran Japanese writer/director Yasujiro Ozu's second postwar production was 1949's Late Spring or Banshun. Chisu Ryu plays another of Ozu's realistic middle-class types, this time a widower with a marriageable daughter. Not wishing to see the girl resign herself to spinsterhood, Ryu pretends that he himself is about to be married. The game plan is to convince the daughter that they'll be no room for her at home, thus forcing her to seek comfort and joy elsewhere. What makes this homey little domestic episode work is the rapport between Chisu Ryu and Setsuko Hara, who plays the daughter. Late Spring is no facile Hollywood farce; we like these people, believe in them, and wish them the best.

Bakushû (Early Summer):

Writer/director Yasujiro Ozu combines two of his favorite themes--the culture clashes in modern Japan and the emergence of the independent Japanese woman--in Early Summer (Bakushu). Setsuko Hara plays a young woman of the post-war era who is promised in an arranged marriage. But too much has happened in the world and in the girl's own life to allow her to agree to this union without protest. The characters in Early Summer are neither remote historical personages nor distant foreigners. They are types as easily recognizable in Japan as in any country, and this commonality enhances the universal appeal of this austere film. Yasujiro Ozu collaborated on the script of Early Summer with Kogo Noda.

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