An Autumn Afternoon - Criterion Collection
by Yasujiro Ozu
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Actor: Daisuke Kato, Kuniko Miyake, Kyoko Kishida, Shima Iwashita, Shin-Ichiro MikamiDirector: Yasujiro Ozu
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Yushun Atsuta
Composer: Kojun Saito
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Japanese (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-30
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion Collection
Movie Reviews of An Autumn Afternoon - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: This was not meant to be the last...
Summary: 5 Stars
But in the end this IS the last work of Yasujiro Ozu's life. I can't say it is a surprise or fresh because he uses the same actors and actresses he loves. And the plot of a dad trying to get his daughter married off and happy is also recycled - if you are reading this you know this. While in other films of this type the father in the end seems to be OK with what he did in this one the father seems to be lonely and sad that he has lost one of his children, even when he still has a son at home. It is the same - with a twist.
Being able to see a movie drama from Japan in color was amazing in itself - the ruins, the play of red and white, the angle of the camera allowing us to almost look up at the characters and down the layered settings, with the foreground and background and everything in between seeming to jump out at you. The reunion of old friends, the TV set, the fridge, the vacuum cleaner, the tiny plots that twist around the main plot, and the baseball game show the change in Japan in the post-war years. But the old traditions and ways of the family still hung on. It makes such a great mixture of new, old and, sometimes, lovely themes that pop out at you. Get it new or used.
Summary of An Autumn Afternoon - Criterion Collection
Yasujiro Ozu's final film is also his final masterpiece, the gently heartbreaking story of a man's dignified resignation to both life s ever-shifting currents and society's gradual modernization. Though widower Shuhei Hirayama (Ozu's frequent leading man Chishu Ryu) has been living comfortably for years with his grown daughter, a series of events leads him to accept and encourage her marriage and departure. As elegantly composed and achingly tender as any of the Japanese master's films, An Autumn Afternoon (Sanna no aji) is one of cinema s fondest farewells. SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES: New, restored high-definition digital transfer, New audio commentary featuring David Bordwell, author of Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema, Excerpts from Yasujiro Ozu and the Taste of Sake, a 1978 French television program looking back on Ozu's career, featuring film critic Michel Ciment, Theatrical trailer, New and improved English subtitle translation, PLUS: A booklet featuring new essays by film scholars Geoff Andrew and Donald RichieDeceptively breezy, Yasujiro Ozu's final film, made in 1962, is the lovely culmination of the mysterious writer-director's fascination with family, and the social mechanisms by which different generations fulfill obligations to one another and to themselves. The central character, Shuhei Hirayama (Chishu Ryu, Ozu's longtime collaborator), is a 60-ish executive and widower who slowly grows concerned that his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko (Shima Iwashita), has not married because she feels responsible for taking care of him at home. Taciturn, low-key, but affable, Shuhei is a hard man to read. But through his friendships, habits, daily reminders of his past and fear that he might rob his daughter of her youth, Shuhei gradually comes to terms with his responsibility to see Michiko fulfilled and happy. There is also more to it than that: An Autumn Afternoon is also about Shuhei turning a page in his small part in history, the closing chapters of a life that involved military service during World War II and settling into post-war, largely Westernized Japan. These things are all understated, but Ozu gives every character a shape, a recognition that one must play the cards one is dealt without self-deception. With that comes a certain Zen serenity, humor and perhaps melancholy, but in An Autumn Afternoon's spirit of acceptance, a bittersweet life is a good life. Special features on this Criterion release include trailers and excerpts from a French television special about Ozu. --Tom Keogh
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