| Description |
2 videodiscs (251 min.) : silent, black & white ; 12 cm + 1 booklet (32 pages) |
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DVD video 4 3/4 in |
| Series |
Ozu collection |
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Ozu collection
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| Contents |
Disc 1. Walk cheerfully = Hogaraka ni ayume (92 min.) -- Disc 2. That night's wife = Sono yo no tsuma (63 min.) -- Dragnet girl = Hijosen no onna (96 min.) |
| Summary |
Yasujiro Ozu honed his craft in the early 1930s, a time when young Japanese directors were experimenting with cinematic conventions. This two-disc set features three gangster-genre films in which Ozu mixes a Hollywood-infused dynamism with elements of his later style |
| Notes |
Catalogued from container |
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Special features: "A straightforward boy" (1929; 13 min.); "Ozu : emotion and poetry," extract from Asian-cinema expert Tony Rayns' 2010 lecture (2012, 10 min.) |
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Japanese titles from container |
| Credits |
Director, Yasujiro Ozu ; script, Tadao Ikeda and Kogo Noda ("That night's wife") |
| Cast |
Walk cheerfully: Minoru Takada, Hiroko Kawasaki, Hisao Yoshitani |
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That night's wife: Tokihiko Okada, Emiko Yagumo, Togo Yamamoto |
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Dragnet girl: Kinuyo Tanaka, Joji Oka, Sumiko Mizukubo |
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A straightforward boy: Tatsuo Saito, Tomio Aoki, Takeshi Sakamoto |
| Notes |
Censorship classification: 12 + (U.K.) |
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Censorship rating: PG "Mild themes and violence" |
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DVD9; PAL; Region 2; 1.33:1 aspect ratio |
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Silent with music, and Japanese intertitles with English subtitles |
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Available to Deakin University staff and students only |
| Subject |
Motion pictures, Japanese.
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| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Gangster films.
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Silent films.
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Video recordings.
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| Author |
Ozu, Yasujirō, 1903-1963, director
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Ikeda, Tadao, 1905-1964, screenwriter
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Noda, Kōgo, 1893-1968, screenwriter
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Takada, Minoru, 1899-1977, actor
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Kawasaki, Hiroko, 1912-1971, actor
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Yoshitani, Hisao, actor
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Okada, Tokihiko, 1903-1934, actor
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Yagumo, Emiko, 1903-1979, actor
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Yamamato, Togo, actor
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Tanaka, Kinuyo, 1909-1977, actor
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Oka, Jōji, 1902-1970, actor
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Mizukubo, Sumiko, 1916- actor
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Saito, Tatsuo, actor
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Aoki, Tomio, actor
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Sakamoto, Takeshi, 1899-1974, actor
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British Film Institute.
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