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Ozu - Vol. 4

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Format:	DVD

Director:	Yasujiro Ozu \| Yuuji Atsuta

Languages:	Japanese

Subtitles:	English

No. of Disks:	2

Region:	Region 2

Release Date:	29 January 2007

Availability:	Usually dispatched within 3 days

Ever poignant, captivating and elegiac, Yashuro Ozu's films still resonate around the world more than forty years after his death, reaffirming his stature as the world's finest director. Idiosyncratic portrayals of the human experience - the dissolution of family values; the tensions between tradition and modernity; ageing and loneliness - recur as themes throughout his films, ensuring their contemporary relevance. This fourth volume of key works from Japan's best loved director features two of his last films.

Late Autumn (1960) focuses on the story of a still-beautiful widow and her daughter. Ignoring marriage prospects to stand by her mother, Ayako is appalled to discover three old friends of her late father plotting the remarriage of the widow and in so doing, testing the relationship between mother and daughter. Comic touches and the less than passive female character Yukuko mark this film out as one of Ozu's most accessible pieces.

An Autumn Afternoon (1962) proved to be Ozu's serenely beautiful swan-song and was undoubtedly influenced by the death of his mother during its filming. It tells the story of a father who decides to marry off his daughter but upon finding himself lonely without her, realises his mistake. Said to be an attempt to distill the wisdom of his sixty years and fifty-three films into a single work, the film contrasts the promise of youth with the reality of ageing and everyday life.