880-02 Ryū Chishū, Sano Shūji, Tsuda Haruhiko, Saburi Shin, Sakamoto Takeshi, Mito Mitsuko, Ōtsuka Masayoshi, Himori Shinʼichi. Originally released as a motion picture in 1942. A foreign film (Japan). Special features: video interviews with film scholars David Bordwell, and Kristin Thompson; new and improved English subtitle translations; booklet features an essay by critic and historian Tony Rayns, an appreciation of actor Chishu Ryu by Japanese film scholar Donald Richie, and comments by Ryu on director Yasujiro Ozu.
Summary:
After the death of his wife, a school teacher raises his son alone in Kanazawa. One day the father accompanies his students on a field trip and one of the students is fatally injured. Taking responsibility for the accident, the father puts his son in a boarding school and goes to work in a factory in Tokyo. The son grows up to become a teacher and eventually meets his father again. He expresses his desire to quit his job, move to Tokyo and live together with his father. The father is horrified at this idea and admonishes his son to return to his work and not put his own feelings above his responsibilities.
Series:
The Criterion Collection ; 524 The Criterion Collection ; 526
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