The flavor of green tea over rice

DVD 2019

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 thei...

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Explore Topics & Themes:

Arranged marriage Fiction

Husband and wife Japan Fiction

Man-woman relationships Japan Fiction

Married people Japan Fiction

Mothers and sons Japan Fiction

Widows Fiction

More in this Genre:

Feature films Fiction films Foreign films Motion pictures, Japanese Video recordings

Part of a Series:

Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 989 Criterion collection ; 989 DVD

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ISBN:

9781681436333

Edition:

Two-DVD special edition

Description:

2 videodiscs (116 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inches
digital optical surround Dolby Digital mono
video file DVD video region 1
monochrome

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated

Other Title:

Flavour of green tea over rice
Ochazuke no aji (Motion picture) [DVD]
Shukujo wa nani o wasureta ka (Motion picture) [DVD]

Notes:

Essay by scholar Junji Yoshida included in container
Features: "What did the lady forget?" (1937) directed by Yasujir Ozu; new video essay by film scholar David Bordwell; Ozu & Noda, a new documentary by Daniel Raim on Ozus longtime collaboration with screenwriter Kogo Noda
Originally released as a motion picture in 1952
Title from container
Cinematography, Yuharu Atsuta ; editing, Yoshiyasu Hamamura ; music, Ichiro Saito
Shin Saburi, Michiyo Kogure, Kji Tsuruta, Chish Ryu, Chikage Awashima
DVD ; full screen presentation ; Dolby Digital mono
For private home use only
In Japanese with optional English subtitles

Contents:

Disc 1. The flavor of green tea over rice (DVD)
Disc 2. Bonus disc (DVD)

Control Number:

2760810

UPC:

715515233910

Other Authors:

Atsuta, Yūharu, 1905-1992, director of photography
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Hamamura, Yoshiyasu, editor of moving image work
Kogure, Michiyo, actor
Noda, Kōgo, 1893-1968, screenwriter
Ozu, Yasujirō, 1903-1963, film director, screenwriter
Saburi, Shin, 1909-1982, actor
Saitō, Ichirō, 1909-1979, composer (expression)
Tsujima, Keiko, actor
Tsuruta, Kōji, 1924-1987, actor

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