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An Autumn Afternoon Blu Ray

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Yasujiro Ozu's captivating final film An Autumn Afternoon displays the master director's skills at their consummate best. Ozu regular Chishu Ryu (Tokyo Story) plays Shuhei Hirayama a concerned father eager to find a husband for his faithful daughter Michiko (Shima Iwashita) before she sees out her days caring for him. A cast of colourful characters weave seamlessly in and out of the story highlighting themes of loneliness and fear for the future with deep poignancy and ironic humour. Ozu's rarely-seen post-war film A Hen in the Wind (1948) is also included here. In... a Japan recently devastated by WWII a devoted but near destitute mother waits for her husband's demobilisation. When her son falls seriously ill she turns to prostitution to pay his hospital bills. [show more]

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Released
23 May 2011
Directors
Actors
Format
Blu Ray 
Publisher
BFI Video 
Classification
Runtime
193 minutes 
Features
Anamorphic, Colour, Dolby, HiFi Sound, PAL, Subtitled 
Barcode
5035673010723 
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Director Yasujiro Ozu's final film, AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON, continues his quietly observed explorations of family dynamics in postwar Japan. Frequent Ozu star Chishu Ryu plays Shuhei Hirayama, an aging widower whose three children each depend upon him in varying degrees. The eldest, Kazuo, who is married, is a spendthrift who purchases a new set of golf clubs, then hits up his indulgent dad for a loan to buy a refrigerator. The middle child, daughter Michiko, is a 24-year-old still living at home and happy to be the domestic fulcrum between her father and her younger brother, Koichi, a willful teenager. Shuhei's conviction that Michiko isn't ready for marriage scares away a potential suitor in whom she is also interested. But the old man has a change of heart after a long drinking session with several buddies, who warn him that Michiko might wind up an old maid, trapped in the web of loneliness he knows all too well. He arranges a marriage for her, and she finds herself caught between her own desires and her duty to her father. Yhis release also includes Ozu's 1948 film A HEN IN THE WIND (KAZE NO NAKA NO MENDORI).

1960s drama from director Yasujirô Ozu following the tender story of a widower with a young daughter. Japanese social mores dictate that it is the responsibility of Michiko (Shima Iwashita), in the absence of her mother, to take care of her father, Shuhei (Chishû Ryû), for the rest of his life. Shuhei, however, shuns this course of action and instead arranges a marriage for his highly disinclined daughter.