Three Films By Yasujirô Ozu

This year marks the 120th anniversary of Japanese filmmaker Yasujirô Ozu's birth. From his early silent films to his final features in the 1960s, Ozu perfected a style that stripped away unnecessary plot mechanics and camera movement. In doing so, he produced a cinema whose surface simplicity belies character studies of depth, warmth and on occasion, humour. Dragnet Girl (1933): Sweet-faced Tokiko is an ordinary typist, but come nightfall she's a fun-loving gangster's moll. When her boyfriend strays, Tokiko is forced to reassess her life. Hugely popular when it was released, Ozu's Dragnet Girl remains one of his most enduring silent films. Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947): Tashiro, a fortune-telling resident in a poor district of Tokyo, has been followed home by a young boy whose father took him to the city but became separated from him. Initially unwilling to look after Kohei, Tashiro gradually warms to the boy. A Hen in the Wind (1948): A soldier returns home at the end of World War II, and refuses to forgive his wife for prostituting herself one night to pay off medical bills for their son.

Actors: Chôko Iida, Eitarô Ozawa, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Hideko Mimura, Takeshi Sakamoto, Chishû Ryû, Jôji Oka, Sumiko Mizukubo, Hôhi Aoki, Yumeko Aizome, Shûji Sano, Chieko Murata, Kôji Mitsui, Kinuyo Tanaka, Reikichi Kawamura

Audio Languages: Japanese

Duration: 258 minutes

Number of Discs: 2

Subtitle Languages: English

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