Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
One of the ineffably lovely domestic sagas made by Yasujiro Ozu at the height of his mastery, it is a 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 their headstrong, modern niece, sweeps over their household....