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Ozu - Vol. 3: Tokyo Twilight/Equinox Flower/Good Morning

Ozu - Vol. 3: Tokyo Twilight/Equinox Flower/Good Morning
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Format: DVD
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Languages: Japanese
Subtitles: English
No. of Disks: 1
Region: Region 2
Release Date: 24 April 2006
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The origins of the legend that is Yasujiro Ozu lie in his deceptively quiet but dramatically poignant films. Having started his career in the silent era he gradually grew his prodigious talent through the era of talkies and into the technological age of colour cinematography. This is the third boxset of his films, containing his first two colour films.

TOKYO TWILIGHT was his last black and white film and focused on family disintegration; it is also his darkest masterpiece. two adult sisters return to the family home and discover their long missing mother living with another man, leading to a destructive path of despair and isolation.
EQUINOX FLOWER is his first foray into colour cinema and is a gentle observation of interfenerational conflict between a father and his daughter over her impending unapproved marriage.
GOOD MORNING is an update on his earlier silent film I WAS BORN, BUT...(1932), focusing on the impact of western culture and the decline of traditional values amongst the youth of post war Japan. it is a sparkling and lively portrait of divergent shades of humanity.

Special Features

  • Original Theatrical Trailers.
  • Documentaries and Film Notes by film critic Doug Cummings.