Yasujiro Ozu – Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, Bücher und mehr

Two Films By Yasujiro Ozu (1932/1942) (Blu-ray) (UK Import)

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 sim…

Three Films By Yosujiro Ozu (1933-1948) (Blu-ray) (UK Import)

This year marks the 120th anniversary of Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu’s birth. From his early silent films to his final features in the 1960s, Ozu perfected a style that stripped away unnecessary plot …

Tokyo Story (Tokyo monogatari) (1953) (Blu-ray) (UK-Import)

A constant fixture in critics’ polls, Yasujiro Ozu’s most enduring masterpiece, Tokyo Story, is a beautifully nuanced exploration of filial duty, expectation and regret. From the simple tale of an elderly…

Tokyo Monogatari (OmU) (1953)

Ein Meisterwerk des japanischen Kinos und einer der schönsten Filme über familiäre Beziehungen überhaupt. Die Grosseltern Shukichi und Tomi Hirayama beschliessen, ihre erwachsenen Kinder und deren Familie…

Tokyo monogatari - Reise nach Tokyo (OmU) (Blu-ray)

Ein Meisterwerk des japanischen Kinos und einer der schönsten Filme über familiäre Beziehungen überhaupt. Die Grosseltern Shukichi und Tomi Hirayama beschliessen, ihre erwachsenen Kinder und deren Familie…

Später Herbst (OmU)

Sieben Jahre nach dem Tod ihres besten Freundes wollen drei alternde Männer die Tochter des Verstorbenen unter die Haube bringen. Doch Ayako, 24, denkt gar nicht ans Heiraten, lieber lebt sie weiterhin gl…

Banshun - Später Frühling (OmU)

Die 27jährige Noriko lebt mit ihrem verwitweten Vater, einem Universitätsprofessor, in einem kleinen Haus im Norden Kamakuras. Er arbeitet an der Fertigstellung eines wissenschaftlichen Manuskripts, wobei…

Yasujiro Ozu Student Comedies (1929-1932) (UK Import)

Master Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Story) is revered for his unique and poetic style. This 2-disc set brings together all of his surviving early student-genre comedies for the first time. DAYS…

The Ozu Collection - Three Melodramas (1933-1957) (UK Import)

Melodrama is not a word usually associated with Ozu's quietly poetic oeuvre but his post-war Early Spring (1956) and Tokyo Twilight (1957) combine darker elements with his idiosyncratic style to create po…

An Autumn Afternoon (1962) & A Hen in The Wind (1948) (Blu-ray & DVD) (UK Import)

Yasujiro Ozu's elegiac final film, An Autumn Afternoon, charts the inevitable eclipse of older generations by irreverent youth. Revisiting the story of his earlier masterpiece Late Spring (1949), Ozu once…

There Was A Father (1942) & Equinox Flower (1958) (Blu-ray & DVD) (UK Import)

Yasujiro Ozu's first colour film, Equinox Flower is a deft comedy that takes an ironic look at the decline of paternal authority. Shin Saburi plays Wataru Hirayama, an old-fashioned father whose outwardly…

Early Summer (1951) & What Did the Lady Forget? (1937) (Blu-ray & DVD) (UK Import)

Early Summer (Bakush) (1951, 125 min) When family, friends and colleagues pressure Noriko – played with enigmatic brilliance by Setsuko Hara (Tokyo Story, Late Spring) – to marry, they provoke a surprisi…

The Flavour Of Green Tea Over Rice (1952) (Blu-ray & DVD) (UK Import)

Made the year before his career defining masterpiece, Tokyo Story, The Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice is one of Yasujiro Ozu’s most beautiful domestic sagas, a subtly piercing portrait of a marriage comin…

Late Autumn (1960) & A Mother Should be Loved (1934) (Blu-ray & DVD) (UK Import)

When college nostalgia inspires a group of middle-aged businessmen to match-make for the widow – played with measured dignity by Setsuko Hara (Tokyo Story) – of one of their friends and her daughter, they…

Yasujiro Ozu Ga Aishita Ongaku

Ich wurde geboren, aber...

Eine Stummfilmperle aus dem Japan der frühen dreißiger Jahre und einer der schönsten Filme über die Kindheit in der Großstadt. Eine Familie - zwei Welten. Der Angestellte Yoshii zieht mit seiner Frau un…

Andreas Becker

Yasujiro Ozu, die japanische Kulturwelt und der westliche Film

The global world of film and the Japanese world of culture - the work of director Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963) viewed comparatively.

Shiguehiko Hasumi,

Directed by Yasujiro Ozu

"Shiguéhiko Hasumi is, quite simply, the greatest film critic in the world. We are finally able to savor his magisterial classic on Ozu, in a superb English translation. Subtle, provocative, forensic, phi…

Guilty Of Romance (OmU) (Blu-ray)

Ein irrer und kluger Trip durch die Tiefen der menschlichen Perversionen: Sion Sono, der derzeit aufregendste Regisseur Japans, schließt mit Guilty Of Romance stilvoll und provokant seine „Hass-Trilogie“ …