The flavor of green tea over rice: Michiyo Kogure, Shin Saburi, Kōji Tsuruta, Chishū Ryū, Chikage Awashima, Keiko Tsushima, Kuniko Miyake, Eijiro Yanagi, Hisao Toake, Yuko Mochizuki, Yoko Kozono, Matsuko Shiga, Kinichi Ishikawa, Yoko Uehara. What did the lady forget? : Sumiko Kurshima, Tatsuo Saitō, Michiko Kuwano, Shuji Sano. Title from title screens. Full screen (1.37:1 aspect ratio). Digitally restored by Shochiku Co., Ltd. The flavor of green tea over rice: originally released as a motion picture in 1952. What did the lady forget?: originally released as a motion picture in 1937. Features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; What Did the Lady Forget?, a 1937 feature by Yasujiro Ozu; New video essay by film scholar David Bordwell; Ozu & Noda, a new documentary by Daniel Raim on Ozu's longtime collaboration with screenwriter Kogo Noda; New English subtitle translation; An essay by scholar Junji Yoshida.
Contents:
Ochazuka no aji = The flavor of green tea over rice (116 min.) -- What did the lady forget? = Shukujo wa nani o wasuretaka (72 min.)
Summary:
"One of the ineffably lovely domestic sagas made by Yasujiro Ozu at the height of his mastery, The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice is a sublimely piercing portrait of a marriage coming quietly undone. Secrets and deceptions strain the already tenuous relationship of a childless, middle-aged couple, as the wife's city-bred sophistication bumps up against the husband's small-town simplicity, and a generational sea change--in the form of her headstrong, modern niece--sweeps over their household. The director's abiding concern with family dynamics receives one of its most spirited treatments, with a wry, tender humor and buoyant expansiveness that moves the action from the home into the baseball stadiums, pachinki parlors, and ramen shops of postwar Tokyo"--Container.
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