Ozu - Tokyo Story/ Late Spring/ Early Summer [UK Import]

Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Chieko Higashiyama

DVD
Ausgabe vom 6. Dezember 2004
Verkaufsrang: 54211 (je kleiner desto beliebter)
EAN/ISBN: 5023965345424
ASIN: B0002OHZPM (Amazon-Bestellnummer)
 Ozu - Tokyo Story/ Late Spring/ Early Summer [UK Import] - Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Chieko Higashiyama
Vereinigte Königreich Edition, PAL/Region 2 DVD: TON: Japanisch ( Mono ), Englisch ( Untertitel ), BONUSMATERIAL: Satz 3-DVD, Wechselwirkendes Menü, SYNOPSIS: Tokyo Monogatari (Tokyo Story):; As with much of director Yasujiro Ozu's work, a plot summary of this film does not do justice to the emotional power that Ozu lends to this sad, understated tale. An elderly couple, Shukichi Hirayama (Chishu Ryu) and Tomi Hirayama (Chieko Higashiyama), leaves their small coastal village in southern Japan to visit their married children in Tokyo. Their eldest son, Koichi (So Yamamura), a doctor running a clinic in a working-class part of town, is too busy to show them around town, and their eldest daughter is occupied with her beauty salon. Only their widowed daughter-in-law Noriko, played memorably by Setsuko Hara, is willing to take time off work to show the couple the sights of Tokyo. The older children arrange for their parents to visit Atami Hot Springs, but the unimpressed couple soon returns to Tokyo. Tomi stays with her daughter-in-law while Shukichi goes out drinking with some of his buddies, and the bunch complain about their vague sense of disappointment towards their children. Later, he stumbles into his daughter Shige's house late at night. On the way back to their village, tragedy strikes. The callous inattention that son and daughter paid to their parents becomes unamendable. Shige and Koichi quickly return to their busy lives in Tokyo after the funeral, as Noriko and youngest daughter Kyoko remain.; ; Banshun (Late Spring):; Veteran Japanese writer/director Yasujiro Ozu's second postwar production was 1949's Late Spring or Banshun. Chisu Ryu plays another of Ozu's realistic middle-class types, this time a widower with a marriageable daughter. Not wishing to see the girl resign herself to spinsterhood, Ryu pretends that he himself is about to be married. The game