The Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice (DVD + Blu-ray)
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Release Date: 18/05/2020
Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice (DVD + Blu-ray)
Directed by Yasujiro Ozu
Made the year before his career defining masterpiece, Tokyo Story, Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice is one of Yasujiro Ozu's most beautiful domestic sagas, a subtly 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 clashes with the husband's small town simplicity, and a generational sea change in the form of their headstrong, modern niece sweeps over their household. Ozu's expert grasp of family dynamics receives one of its most spirited treatments, with a wry, tender humour and an expansiveness that moves the action from the home, to the baseball stadiums and the shops of post-war Tokyo.
Special features
* Re-mastered at 4k and presented in High Definition for the first time in the UK
* Feature-length audio commentary by critic and Asian-cinema expert Tony Rayns
* Alternative unrestored audio track
* The Mystery of Marriage (1932, 34 mins): educational filmmaker and pioneering female director Mary Field draws peculiar and poignant parallels between the mating rituals of humans, animals and mould in this eccentric, entertaining educational film
* The Good Housewife 'In Her Kitchen' (1949, 9 mins): the fourth wall is shattered in this imaginative public information film, filled with good advice for kitchen users - whether they have a refrigerator or not
* ***FIRST PRESSING ONLY*** Fully illustrated booklet with archival essay by Tom Milne, and writing on the archive films by the BFI's Vic Pratt and full film credits