Originally released as a motion picture in 1952. Full screen (1.37:1). Special features: What did the lady forget? a 1937 feature; New interview with David Bordwell; Ozu & Noda: Tateshina diaries; essay by Junji Yoshida. Michiyo Kogure, Shin Saburi, Keiko Tsujima.
Summary:
One of the ineffably lovely domestic sagas made by Yasujiro Ozu at the height of his mastery, it is a subtly piercing portrait of a marriage coming quietly undone. Secrets and deceptions strain the already tenuous relationship of a childless, middle-aged couple, as the wife₂s city-bred sophistication bumps up against the husband₂s small-town simplicity, and a generational sea change, in the form of their headstrong, modern niece, sweeps over their household.
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