The flavor of green tea over rice Ochazuke no aji
DVD - 2019
"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.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Domestic drama (Motion pictures)
Feature films
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, NY] :
The Criterion Collection
[2019]
- Language
- Japanese
English - Corporate Author
- Corporate Author
- Other Authors
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- Edition
- Two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; full screen
- Item Description
- 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.
Full screen (1.37:1 aspect ratio).
Digitally restored by Shochiku Co., Ltd.
Features: New 4K digital restoration; 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. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (116 and 72 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD; NTSC; region 1; full screen presentation (4:3 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital mono.
- Audience
- Rating: Not rated.
- Production Credits
- The flavor of green tea over rice: director of photography, Yūharu Atsuta ; editor, Hamamura Yoshiyasu ; music, Saitō Ichirō.
What did the lady forget?: director of photography, Yūharu Atsuta, Hideo Shigehara ; editor, Kenkichi Hara ; music, Senji Itō. - ISBN
- 9781681436333
- [Disc 1]. Ochazuka no aji = The flavor of green tea over rice (116 min.)
- [Disc 2]. What did the lady forget? = Shukujo wa nani o wasuretaka (72 min.)
