When an elderly couple leave their remote rural home to visit their married son and daughter in Tokyo, they discover that their children’s way of life – and the children themselves – are very different from what they expected. A film of extraordinary emotional power, Ozu’s much loved masterpiece is also a sketch of social and moral changes in defeated, post-war Japan.
Opens 1 January 2010:
» BFI Southbank, London
Part of the Ozu retrospective at BFI Southbank from
1 January - 28 February 2010.
» Curzon Mayfair, London
» Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle
» Irish Film Institute, Dublin
» Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Part of a season of Ozu's films throughout January
and February
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The boxset contains When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Onna ga kaidan o agaru toki, 1960), Floating Clouds (Ukigumo, 1955) Late Chrysanthemums (Bangiku, 1958) – three of the Japanese master’s finest films.
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Shochiku Ofuna Studio Director: Yasujiro Ozu Script: Kogo Noda and Yasujiro Ozu Assistant Director : Kozo Yamamoto Producer: Takashi Yamamoto Cinematography: Yuharu Atsuta Assistant Cinematography: Takashi Kawamata Editing: Yoshiyasu Hamamura Lighting: Itsuo Takashita
Recording: Yoshizaburo Senoo Art Director: Tetsuo Hamada Music: Takanobu Saito Cast: Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugiura, So Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake, Kyoko Kagawa, Eijiro Tono, Nobuo Nakamura, Shiro Osaka, Hisao Toake, Teruko Nagoya, Mutsuko Sakura, Toyoko Takahashi, Toru Abe, Zen Murase, Mitsuhiro Mori, Toshinosuke Nagao
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