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The Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice
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Shochiku
Directed by: Yasujiro Ozu
Made the year before his career defining masterpiece, Tokyo Story, Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice is one of Yasujiro Ozu’s most beautiful domestic sagas, 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 wife’s city bred sophistication clashes with the husband’s small town simplicity, and a generational sea change in the form of their headstrong, modern niece sweeps over their household.
Ozu’s expert grasp of family dynamics receives one of its most spirited treatments, with a wry, tender humour and an expansiveness that moves the action from the home, to the baseball stadiums and the shops of post-war Tokyo.
Secrets and deceptions strain the already tenuous relationship of a childless, middle aged couple, as the wife’s city bred sophistication clashes with the husband’s small town simplicity, and a generational sea change in the form of their headstrong, modern niece sweeps over their household.
Ozu’s expert grasp of family dynamics receives one of its most spirited treatments, with a wry, tender humour and an expansiveness that moves the action from the home, to the baseball stadiums and the shops of post-war Tokyo.
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Format:
Blu-ray
DVD
Discs:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
DVD-9 (1 Disc)
Total: 2 Discs
Regions:
B (Blu-ray)
2 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37:1
Audio Options:
Japanese Dolby Digital Mono 2.0
Japanese PCM Mono 2.0
Resolution:
1080p/24
576p/25
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Audio Commentary, Alternate Soundtrack, Short Film, Booklet
- Feature-length audio commentary by critic and Asian-cinema expert Tony Rayns
- Alternative unrestored audio track
- The Mystery of Marriage (1932, 34 mins): educational filmmaker and pioneering female director Mary Field draws peculiar and poignant parallels between the mating rituals of humans, animals and mould in this eccentric, entertaining educational film
- The Good Housewife "In Her Kitchen" (1949, 9 mins): the fourth wall is shattered in this imaginative public information film, filled with good advice for kitchen users - whether they have a refrigerator or not
- Illustrated booklet with archival essay by Tom Milne and writing on the archive films by the BFI’s Vic Pratt (First Printing Only)
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Restoration Information
The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice
Restoration by:
Shochiku
IMAGICA Corp
Year: 2018
Scanned at: 4K Digital
Restored at: 4K Digital
Sources:
35mm Fine-grain master positive