Silent Ozu : three family comedies / directed by Yasujiro Ozu ; Shochiku Company ; distributed by Eclipse from Criterion.
東京の合唱 松竹キネマ株式会社 ; 原案, 脚色, 北村小松, 野田高梧 ; 潤色, 野田高梧 ; 監督, 小津安二郎 = Tokyo chorus / Shochiku Co., Ltd. ; original story by Komatsu Kitamura and Kogo Noda ; screenplay by Kogo Noda ; directed by Yasujiro Ozu.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Ozu, Yasujirō, 1903-1963., Director, Screenwriter.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

小津安二郎, 1903-1963., Director, Screenwriter.

松竹株式会社.

Series:

Eclipse (Criterion Collection (Firm)). Silent Ozu. Series 10,

Eclipse. Series 10, Silent Ozu

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Families--Japan--Drama.

Families.

Japan--Social life and customs--Drama.

Japan.

Manners and customs.

Motion pictures, Japanese.

Silent films.

Genre:

Foreign films -- Japan.

Foreign films.

Film adaptations

Comedy films

Drama

Feature films

Silent films

Film adaptations.

Feature films.

Silent films.

Comedy films.

Motion pictures, Japanese.

Physical Description:

3 videodiscs (280 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.

plastic

4 3/4 in.

Other Title:

Three family comedies

生れてはみたけれど.

出来ごころ.

東京の合唱.

Place of Publication:

[New York, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2008]

Language Note:

Silent films with Japanese intertitles and optional English subtitles; optional added musical score.

System Details:

DVD, NTSC, Region 1; full screen (1.33:1 and 1:26;1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.

digital

video file

DVD video

Summary:

In the late twenties and early thirties, Yasujiro Ozu was working steadily for Shochiku studios, honing his craft on dozens of silent films in various genres, from romantic melodramas to college comedies to gangster pictures -- and, of course, movies about families. In these three droll domestic films -- Tokyo Chorus, I Was Born, But, and Passing Fancy, presented here with all-new scores by renowned silent-film composer Donald Sosin -- Ozu movingly and humorously depicts middle-class struggles and the resentments between children and parents, establishing the emotional and aesthetic delicacy with which he would transform the landscape of cinema.

Contents:

[disc 1] Tōkyō no kōrasu = Tokyo chorus (1931 ; 90 min.)

[disc 2] Umarete wa mita keredo = I was born, but (1932 ; 90 min.)

[disc 3] Dekigokoro = Passing fancy (1933 ; 100 min.).

[disc 1] 東京の合唱 = Tokyo chorus (1931 ; 90 min.)

[disc 2] 生れてはみたけれど = I was born, but (1932 ; 90 min.)

[disc 3] 出来ごころ = Passing fancy (1933 ; 100 min.).

Participant:

Tatsuo Saito, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Hideo Sugawara, Tomkio Aoki, Takeshi Sakamoto, Nobuko Fushimi, Den Obinata, Choko Iida, Reiko Tanki, Tokihiko Okada, Emiko Yakumo, Hideoko Takamine, Tatsuo Saito.

岡田時彦, 八雲恵美子, 菅原秀雄, 高峰秀子, 斎藤達雄, 飯田蝶子, 坂本武, 谷麗光, 宮島健一, 山口勇.

Credits:

Director of photography and editor, Hideo Mohara.

撮影編集茂原英朗.

Notes:

Title from the box.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1931 and 1933.

Contains:

Umar ete wa mita keredo.

I was born, but.

Dekigokoro.

Passing fancy.

Tōkyō no kōrasu.

Tokyo chorus.

生れてはみたけれど.

出来ごころ.

東京の合唱.

ISBN:

1604650338

9781604650334

1604650362

9781604650365

1604650346

9781604650341

1604650354

9781604650358

OCLC:

232119789

Publisher Number:

715515029124

ECL045 Criterion Collection (set)

ECL048 Criterion Collection (disc 1)

ECL046 Criterion Collection (disc 2)

ECL047 Criterion Collection (disc 3)