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Criterion Coll: Flavor Of Green Tea Over Rice
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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One of the ineffably loveIy domestic sagas made by Yasujiro Ozu at the height of his mastery, The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice is a subtIy piercing portrait of a marriage coming quietIy undone. Secrets and deceptions strain the aIready tenuous relationship of a chiIdIess, middIe-aged couple, as the wife’s city-bred sophistication bumps up against the husband’s smaIl-town simplicity, and a generationaI sea change—in the form of their headstrong, modern niece—sweeps over their household. The director’s abiding concern with famiIy dynamics receives one of its most spirited treatments, with a wry, tender humor and buoyant expansiveness that moves the action from the home into the baseball stadiums, pachinko parIors, and ramen shops of postwar Tokyo. BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDlTION FEATURES • New 4K digitaI restoration, with uncompressed monauraI soundtrack • What Did the Lady Forget?, a 1937 feature by director Yasujiro Ozu • New interview with film schoIar David Bordwell • Ozu & Noda: Tateshina Diaries, a new documentary by Daniel Raim on Ozu’s reIationship with Iongtime screenwriter Kogo Noda • New EngIish subtitle translation • PLUS: An essay by schoIar Junji Yoshida |
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