Horizon Information Portal

e-branch

Home

My Account/Renew Loans

Find Magazine Articles & more

An autumn afternoon [videorecording (DVD)] = (Sanma no aji) / a Yasujiro Ozu film.

View full image

The Criterion Collection, 2008.

Arranged marriage -- Drama.

May-December romances -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 446.

Alternate title:

Sanma no aji [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)] =

1 videodisc (113 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet.

Originally released as motion picture in 1962.

Accompanied by a booklet featuring new essays by film scholars Geoff Andrew and Donald Richie.

Special features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer ; audio commentary featuring David Bordwell, author of Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema ; excerpts from Yasujiro Ozu and the Taste of Sake, a 1978 French television program looking back on Ozu's career, featuring film critic Michel Ciment ; theatrical trailer ; new and improved English subtitle translation ; PLUS: A booklet featuring new essays by film scholars Geoff Andrew and Donald Richie.

1.33:1 aspect ratio.

In Japanese with optional English subtitles.

Director, Ozu Yasujiro ; writers, Kogo Noda, Yasujiro Ozu ; producer, Shizuo Yamanouchi.

Chishû Ryû, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada, Mariko Okada, Teruo Yoshida, Noriko Maki, Shin'ichirô Mikami, Nobuo Nakamura, Eijirô Tôno, Kuniko Miyake, Kyôko Kishida, Michiyo Tamaki, Ryûji Kita, Toyo Takahashi, Shinobu Asaji, Masao Oda, Daisuke Kato and Haruko Sugimura.

"Yasujiro Ozu's final film is also his final masterpiece, the gently heartbreaking story of a man's dignified resignation to both life's ever-shifting currents and society's gradual modernization. Though widower Shuhei Hirayama (Ozu's frequent leading man Chishu Ryu) has been living comfortably for years with his grown daughter, a series of events leads him to accept and encourage her marriage and departure. As elegantly composed and achingly tender as any of the Japanese master's films, An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji) is one of cinema's fondest farewells."--Container.

Japanese films.

Ozu, Yasujirō, 1903-1963.

Ryū, Chishū, 1904-1993.

Iwashita, Shima, 1941-

Sada, Keiji, 1926-1964.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal