Ozu Collection - 8-DVD Box Set ( Banshun (Kathysterimeni anoixi) / Bakushû (Proimo kalokairi) / Ochazuke no aji (Tea Over Rice) / Tôkyô monogatari / Ukigusa (Ukikusa) / Ohayô (Ohayou) / Sanma no aji (The Taste of Saury) ) ( Late Spring / Early Summer / Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice / Tokyo Story / Floating Weeds / Good Morning / An Autumn Afternoon )

Ozu Collection - 8-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Banshun (Kathysterimeni anoixi) / Bakushû (Proimo kalokairi) / Ochazuke no aji (Tea Over Rice) / Tôkyô monogatari / Ukigusa (Ukikusa) / Ohayô (Ohayou) / Sanma no aji (The Taste of Saury)
Alternate Title: Late Spring / Early Summer / Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice / Tokyo Story / Floating Weeds / Good Morning / An Autumn Afternoon
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
820 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1949 - 1962 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Yasujiro Ozu

Written By:
Kazuo Hirotsu
Kôgo Noda
Yasujiro Ozu

Actors:
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
Toyo Takahashi ..... Shige
Jun Tanizaki ..... Seizo Hayashi
Ichirô Shimizu ..... Takigawa's master
Youko Benisawa ..... Teahouse Proprietress
Manzaburo Umewaka ..... Shite
Setsuko Hara ..... Noriko Mamiya
Chishu Ryu ..... Koichi Mamiya
Chikage Awashima ..... Aya Tamura
Kuniko Miyake ..... Fumiko Mamiya
Ichirô Sugai ..... Shukichi Mamiya
Chieko Higashiyama ..... Shige Mamiya
Haruko Sugimura ..... Tami Yabe
Kuniko Igawa ..... Takako
Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi ..... Kenkichi Yabe
Shûji Sano ..... Sotaro Satake
Toyo Takahashi ..... Nobu Tamura
Seiji Miyaguchi ..... Nishiwaki
Ito Kazuyo ..... Mitsuko Yabe
Kokuten Kôdô ..... Old Uncle
Zen Murase ..... Minoru Mamiya
Shin Saburi ..... Mokichi Satake
Michiyo Kogure ..... Taeko Satake
Koji Tsuruta ..... Noboru Okada
Chikage Awashima ..... Aya Amamiya
Keiko Tsushima ..... Setsuko Yamauchi
Eijirô Yanagi ..... Yamauchi
Kuniko Miyake ..... Chizu Yamauchi
Kôji Shitara ..... Koji Yamauchi
Chishu Ryu ..... Sadao Hirayama
Yûko Mochizuki ..... Shige
Hisao Toake ..... Toichiro Amamiya
Matsuko Shiga
Chishu Ryu ..... Shukishi Hirayama
Chieko Higashiyama ..... Tomi Hirayama
Setsuko Hara ..... Noriko Hirayama
Haruko Sugimura ..... Shige Kaneko
Sô Yamamura ..... Koichi Hirayama
Kuniko Miyake ..... Fumiko Hirayama - his wife
Kyôko Kagawa ..... Kyoko Hirayama
Eijirô Tono ..... Sanpei Numata
Nobuo Nakamura ..... Kurazo Kaneko
Shirô Osaka ..... Keiso Hirayama
Hisao Toake ..... Osamu Hattori
Teruko Nagaoka ..... Yone Hattori
Mutsuko Sakura ..... Patron of the Oden Restaurant
Toyo Takahashi ..... Shukichi Hirayama's Neighbor
Tôru Abe ..... Train employee
Ganjiro Nakamura ..... Komajuro Arashi
Machiko Kyô ..... Sumiko
Ayako Wakao ..... Kayo
Hiroshi Kawaguchi ..... Kiyoshi Homma
Haruko Sugimura ..... Oyoshi
Hitomi Nozoe ..... Aiko
Chishu Ryu ..... Theatre Owner
Kôji Mitsui ..... Kichinosuke
Haruo Tanaka ..... Yatazo
Yosuke Irie ..... Sugiyama
Hikaru Hoshi ..... Kimura
Mantarô Ushio ..... Sentaro
Kumeko Urabe ..... Shige
Toyo Takahashi ..... Aiko no haha
Mutsuko Sakura ..... O-Katsu
Keiji Sada ..... Heiichirô Fukui
Yoshiko Kuga ..... Setsuko Arita
Chishu Ryu ..... Keitarô Hayashi
Kuniko Miyake ..... Tamiko
Haruko Sugimura ..... Kikue Haraguchi
Kôji Shitara ..... Minoru Hayashi
Masahiko Shimazu ..... Isamu
Kyôko Izumi ..... Midori Maruyama
Toyo Takahashi ..... Shige Ôkubo
Sadako Sawamura ..... Kayoko Fukui
Eijirô Tono ..... Tomizawa
Teruko Nagaoka ..... Toyoko
Eiko Miyoshi ..... Mitsue Haraguchi
Haruo Tanaka ..... Tatsuzô
Akira Ôizumi ..... Akira Maruyama
Chishu Ryu ..... Shuhei Hirayama
Shima Iwashita ..... Michiko Hirayama
Keiji Sada ..... Koichi
Mariko Okada ..... Akiko
Teruo Yoshida ..... Yutaka Miura
Noriko Maki ..... Fusako Taguchi
Shinichirô Mikami ..... Kazuo
Nobuo Nakamura ..... Shuzo Kawai
Eijirô Tono ..... Sakuma, The 'Gourd'
Kuniko Miyake ..... Nobuko
Kyôko Kishida ..... 'Kaoru' no Madame
Michiyo Tamaki ..... Tamako, gosai
Ryuji Kita ..... Shin Horie
Toyo Takahashi ..... 'Wakamatsu' no Okami
Shinobu Asaji ..... Youko Sasaki, hisho

Synopsis:

Yasujiro Ozu is one in the triumvirate of great Japanese directorsalong with Mizoguchi and Kurosawawho transformed Japan's national cinema into something which would capture the imaginations of cinephiles the world over. Ozu's films are known for their meditative tone, languid cameraworkshot from Tatami mat level, which would become his signatureand narratives focusing on themes of family, honour and societal expectations. Features seven classic Ozu films: TOKYO STORY, AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON, EARLY SUMMER, FLOATING WEEDS, OHAYO, THE FLAVOUR OF GREEN TEA OVER RICE and LATE SPRING.

Late Spring (1949)
Noriko is 27 years old and is still living with her father Somiya, a widower. Noriko just recovered from an illness she developed in the war, and now the important question pops up: when will Noriko start thinking about marriage? Everybody who is important in her life tries to talk her into it: her father, her aunt, a girlfriend. But Noriko doesn't want to get married, she seems extremely happy with her life. She wants to stay with her father to take care of him. After all, she knows best of his manners and peculiarities. But Noriko's aunt doesn't want to give up. She arranges a partner for her and thinks of a plan that will convince Noriko her father can be left alone.

Early Summer (1951)
In postwar Tokyo, this household is loving and serene: older parents, their 28-year-old daughter Noriko, their married son, his devoted wife, and two rascally sons. Their only discontent is Noriko's lack of a husband. Society is changing: she works, she has women friends who tease and argue, her brother sees her independence as impudence, she sees it as normal. When her boss suggests that she marry a 40-year-old bachelor who is his friend, all the members of her family press her to accept. Without seeking their advice, and to their chagrin, Noriko determines her own course of action.

Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952)
Takeo, a capricious wife from Tokyo high-society, is bored by her dull husband, a quiet and reliable company executive raised in the country (Shin Saburi) After a crisis, she understands better his true value. A parallel sub-plot shows her niece rebelling against the tradition of arranged marriages.

Tokyo Story (1953)
Elderly couple Shukishi and Tomi Hirayama live in the small coastal village of Onomichi, Japan with their youngest daughter, schoolteacher Kyoko Hirayama. Their other three surviving adult children, who they have not seen in quite some time, live either in Tokyo or Osaka. As such, Shukishi and Tomi make the unilateral decision to have an extended visit in Tokyo with their children, pediatrician Koichi Hirayama and beautician Shige Kaneko, and their respective families (which includes two grandchildren). In transit, they make an unexpected stop in Osaka and stay with their other son, Keiso Hirayama. All of their children treat the visit more as an obligation than a want, each trying to figure out what to do with their parents while they continue on with their own daily lives. At one point, they even decide to ship their parents off to an inexpensive resort at Atami Hot Springs rather than spend time with them. The only offspring who makes a concerted effort on this trip is Noriko Hirayama, their widowed daughter-in-law, whose husband, Shoji Hirayama, was killed eight years earlier in the war. Following the vacation, each child comes to some conclusion of their general behavior toward their parents, not only on this trip but throughout their entire adult lives. For some, this realization may come too late.

Floating Weeds (1959)
A troupe of travelling players arrive at a small seaport in the south of Japan. Komajuro Arashi, the aging master of the troupe, goes to visit his old flame Oyoshi and their son Kiyoshi, even though Kiyoshi believes Komajuro is his uncle. The leading actress Sumiko is jealous and so, in order to humiliate the master, persuades the younger actress Kayo to seduce Kiyoshi.

Good Morning (1959)
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...

An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
Director Yasujiro Ozu's final film, and a rare outing in color for him, continues his quietly observed explorations of family dynamics in postwar Japan. Frequent Ozu star Chishu Ryu plays Shuhei Hirayama, an aging widower whose three children each depend upon him in varying degrees. The eldest, Kazuo, who is married, is a spendthrift who purchases a new set of golf clubs, then hits up his indulgent dad for a loan to buy a refrigerator. The middle child, daughter Michiko, is a 24-year-old still living at home and happy to be the domestic fulcrum between her father and her younger brother, Koichi, a willful teenager. Shuhei's conviction that Michiko isn't ready for marriage scares away a potential suitor in whom she is also interested. But the old man has a change of heart after a long drinking session with several buddies, who warn him that Michiko might wind up an old maid, trapped in the web of loneliness he knows all too well. He arranges a marriage for her, and she finds herself caught between her own desires and her duty to her father. The story ends on the late afternoon of Michiko's wedding day, as Shuhei returns to his home to face life on his own, resigned to the fact that his daughter's happiness comes before his own.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 22 December, 2010.