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Autumn Afternoon, An: Dual Format Edition (Blu ray + DVD) RRP 19.99

certificate PG Certificate
1962 + 1948
Runtime: 113 + 80 mins
Colour / B&W
Japan
Language(s): Japanese
Subtitles: English
Published/distributed by BFI
ISBN/EAN: 5035673010723
Ratio 1.33:1
Price: £19.99
(Including VAT at 20%)
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Autumn Afternoon, An: Dual Format Edition (Blu ray + DVD) RRP 19.99 
Ozu, Yasujiro
Yasujiro Ozu's elegiac final film, An Autumn Afternoon, charts the inevitable eclipse of older generations by irreverent youth. Revisiting the story of his earlier masterpiece Late Spring (1949), Ozu once again casts Chishu Ryu in the role of
Hirayama, the concerned father to unmarried Michiko. Harangued on all sides to marry off Michiko, Hirayama reluctantly prepares to bid his old life farewell. A cast of tragi-comic characters weaves seamlessly through this gently satirical portrayal of lifes inevitable, endless cycle.

Ozu's rarely seen post-war melodrama, A Hen in the Wind, is also included here. In a Japan recently devastated by World War II a devoted, near-destitute mother turns to prostitution to pay medical bills when her son falls dangerously ill.


Extras
* Fully illustrated booklet with newly commissioned essays by Kyoko Hirano and Jonathan
Rosenbaum
* New and improved English subtitles
* Standard Definition and High Definition presentation of An Autumn Afternoon (DVD &
Blu-ray)
* Standard Definition presentation of A Hen in the Wind (DVD only)

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