Yasujirô Ozu

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Yasujirô Ozu directs this 1950s Japanese drama that explores ageing, mortality and intergenerational tensions. When elderly couple Tomi and Shukichi Hirayama (Chieko Higashiyama and Chishu Ryu) travel from their rural village home to visit their married son and daughter in Tokyo, their reception is disappointing. Met with impatience and selfish indifference by their children and their grandchildren, they are soon packed off to a spa - but when Tomi falls ill, her descendants are forced to re-evaluate their priorities.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Triple bill of Japanese dramas directed by Yasujirô Ozu. In 'Record of a Tenement Gentleman' (1947) Kohei (Hôhi Aoki) follows fortune teller Tashiro (Chishû Ryû) home after he becomes separated from his father while visiting Tokyo. Tashiro and his friends are struggling in the aftermath of the war but Kohei's brief presence in their lives changes their perspective on life. The silent drama 'Dragnet Girl' (1933) follows Tokiko (Kinuyo Tanaka), a typist, and her boyfriend Joji (Jôji Oka), a small-time gangster. When she realises that Joji is attracted to another woman, her priorities change, but will she be able to find the redemption she seeks? Finally, in 'A Hen in the Wind' (1948) Tokiko (Tanaka) awaits her husband's return from the war. Barely able to make ends meet, when her four-year-old son becomes sick, she is unable to pay for his care. Desperate, she prostitutes herself for one night but when her husband returns and learns what she did to save their son, he struggles to forgive her.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Double bill of Japanese dramas directed by Yasujirô Ozu. In 'I Was Born, But...' (1932) brothers Keiji (Tomio Aoki) and Ryoichi (Hideo Sugawara) find their worldview challenged when their faith in their father is shaken. They are being bullied at school and are humiliated when they discover from one of their bullies that their father allows himself to be badly treated by his colleagues and superiors at work. When they confront their father, they are punished, but secretly their father wishes that his children's lives will be better than his. In 'There Was a Father' (1942) widowed father Shuhei Horikawa (Chishû Ryû) quits his teaching job in the aftermath of a tragic accident. To fund his son Ryohei (Haruhiko Tsuda/Shûji Sano)'s education he moves to Tokyo to work but in the process he finds that they are drifting increasingly apart.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / Restored</i>