Retrospective: 100 Years of Yasujiro Ozu 2003 / Sanma no aji / Japan 1962
In this film, Yasujiro Ozu puts forward his artistic testament: a meditation on the disintegration of the family and on human fate ineluctably heading towards loneliness. Motifs in his final work draw upon previous films, but the director still endeavours to create a new expression.
Hirayama is an aging widower living with his daughter Michiko and younger son Kazuo. Some of his friends´ remarks disturb his hitherto peaceful family life: Michiko is of marriageable age and he should find her a husband. Hirayama sees the sense of their comments: indeed a clear example of parental selfishness involves a former teacher who has become completely dependent upon his daughter; she is now so old that no one will marry her. Together they find Michiko a good match and the father begins to learn to live alone. In this film, Yasujiro Ozu puts forward his artistic testament: a meditation on the disintegration of the family and on human fate ineluctably heading towards loneliness. Motifs in his final work draw upon previous films, but the director still endeavours to create a new expression.
113 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Yasujiro Ozu
/ Screenplay Kogo Noda, Yasujiro Ozu
/ Dir. of Photography Yuharu Atsuta
/ Music Takanobu Saito
/ Editor Yoshiyasu Hamamura
/ Producer Shizuo Yamanouchi
/ Production Shochiku Co., Ltd.
/ Cast Shima Iwashita, Chishu Ryu, Keiji Sada, Shinichiro Mikami, Mariko Okada, Nobuo Nakamura, Kuniko Miyake, Ryuji Kita, Eijiro Tohno
/ Contact Shochiku Co., Ltd.
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