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DVD006785

Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice, The

Ozu, Yasujiro

The Criterion Collection, 2019

Description:

BluRay - Zone A.   viewing copy.   1 videodisc of 1.

Notes:

Supplemental features include: a video essay by David Bordell; OZU & NODA, a new documentary by Daniel Raim on Ozu’s longtime collaboration with screenwriter Kogo Noda; an essay booklet featuring writing by scholar Junji Yoshida and credit information, available at checkout.

Titles

+ Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice, The

Alternate Title:

Ochazuke no aji; Tea and Rice

Director:

Ozu, Yasujiro

Production Co:

Shochiku Co.

Running Time:

Feature.   116 minutes

Sound:

sound - monaural

Color:

b/w

Country:

Japan

Year:

1952

Language:

Japanese language with English subtitles

Genre:

Drama, Romance

Notes:

4K digital restoration. One of the ineffably lovely domestic sagas made by Yasujiro Ozu, The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice is a piercing portrait of a marriage coming quietly undone. Secrets and deceptions strain the already tenuous relationship of a childless, middle-aged couple as the wife’s city-bred sophistication bump up against the husband’s small-town simplicity. The director’s abiding concern with family dynamics receives treatment with a wry, tender humor and expansiveness that moves the action from the home into the baseball stadiums, pachinko parlors, and ramen shops of postwar Tokyo.

Link to:

FII catalog | AFI catalog

+ What Did the Lady Forget

Alternate Title:

Shukujo Wa Nani O Wasuretaka

Director:

Ozu, Yasujiro

Production Co:

Shochiku Co.

Running Time:

Feature.   71 minutes

Sound:

sound - monaural

Color:

b/w

Country:

Japan

Year:

1937

Language:

Japanese language with English subtitles

Genre:

Drama, Comedy

Notes:

Released in 1937, What Did the Lady Forget? was Yasujiro Ozo’s second sound picture and, as a piercing satire of the Japanese bourgeoisie, is a precursor to many of the director’s best-known social comedies, including The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice. In this film, the lives of Professor Komiyo and his wife, Tokiko, are upset by the arrival of their niece, Setsuko, from Osaka. Setsuko discovers that Komiyo is actually frequenting a bar in Ginza, rather than playing golf as he claims, and tries to set the couple against one another.

Link to:

FII catalog |