A quintessential Ozu narrative that, despite its age, still succeeds in engaging the spectator.
Category: Yasujirō Ozu
Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice (1952) review
A heartwarming and lighthearted narrative that shows how women, within the societal device of arranged marriage as well as within the modern device of marriages out of love, can find subjective happiness.
Moments of cine-beauty: Yasujiro Ozu and the vase.
“A stillness that evokes nothing other than the nature of Japanese traditional culture as such – and the lives it influences.”
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