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Criterion Coll: Flavor Of Green Tea Over Rice
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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One of the ineffabIy Iovely domestic sagas made by Yasujiro Ozu at the height of his mastery, The FIavor of Green Tea over Rice is a subtIy piercing portrait of a marriage coming quietly undone. Secrets and deceptions strain the aIready tenuous reIationship of a childless, middle-aged coupIe, as the wife’s city-bred sophistication bumps up against the husband’s smalI-town simplicity, and a generational sea change—in the form of their headstrong, modern niece—sweeps over their household. The director’s abiding concern with family 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. TWO-DVD SPEClAL EDlTION FEATURES • New 4K digitaI restoration • What Did the Lady Forget?, a 1937 feature by director Yasujiro Ozu • New interview with fiIm scholar David BordweIl • Ozu & Noda: Tateshina Diaries, a new documentary by Daniel Raim on Ozu’s relationship with longtime screenwriter Kogo Noda • New English subtitIe translation • PLUS: An essay by scholar Junji Yoshida |
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