Tag: yasujiro ozu

Ozu Gangster Films in March

The BFI's Ozu collection continues...

Three Melodramas

The Ozu Collection continues with this new BFI DVD-only boxset covering Woman of Tokyo, Early Spring and Tokyo Twilight....

Three Melodramas (BFI Ozu Collection) in June

Three Ozu films form this DVD collection released in June...

The Student Comedies: Four Silent Films by Yasujiro Ozu

Slackers, pratfalls and young romance.

BFI Ozu: The Student Comedies in February

The next BFI Ozu Collection release brings together four silent comedies...

An Autumn Afternoon

The latest in the BFI's ongoing Yasujiro Ozu collection....

Late Autumn

Ozu's first reworking of Late Spring has been given a Dual Format release by the BFI...

Good Morning

Ozu for beginners (with fart jokes)...

BFI Ozu Collection titles in May

Four more films from Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu on Dual Format Editions this May...

Equinox Flower/There Was a Father

Tragedy and Comedy collide in the BFI's latest Ozu double bill. Out today on Dual Format BD/DVD....

BFI Ozu Collection titles in January

Yasujiro Ozu's Equinox Flower and Good Morning are joined by two early films from the director on these Dual Format Editions from the BFI...

Tokyo Story

Greatest film of all time? Many critics think so! Out Now on Dual Format DVD/BD....

Early Summer

Matt Shingleton continues our coverage of the BFI's recent Dual Format releases in The Ozu Collection....

Late Spring

Beginning our comprehensive look at the BFI's The Ozu Collection, clydefro reviews Late Spring and The Only Son. ...

The Criterion Collection: Eclipse Series 10: Silent Ozu

Criterion Eclipse release their second set of Ozu films, this time three early silent comedies. John White appreciates the beginnings of a master film-maker...

Late Ozu

Criterion release their 3rd eclipse boxset containing five of the last films of Yasujiro Ozu. We consider the sanguine reveries about changing times...

Ozu Collection Volume 4

The final volume in Tartan’s collection contains two of Ozu’s final films – Late Autumn and An Autumn Afternoon - two late masterpieces from one of the world’s greatest film directors.

Days of Youth

Early silent comic effort from Yasujiro Ozu. John White sees if the master could do slapstick....

The Japanese Masters Collection

Artificial Eye repackage a collection of four classic films of Japanese Cinema, Ozu’s ‘Floating Weeds’ and ‘The End of Summer’, and Mizoguchi’s ‘The Lady of Musashino’ and ‘The Life of Oharu’.

Late Spring (Criterion Collection)

Noel Megahey reviews the Criterion Collection 2-disc edition of Yasujiro Ozu's classic 1949 film - a typically perceptive and moving account of family relationships, this time between a widowed father and his unmarried daughter - and compares it to the Tartan Region 2 edition.

Ozu Collection Volume 3

Tartan's third Ozu collection captures the director's move from b&w to colour films with Tokyo Twilight, Equinox Flower and the delightful Good Morning, and thankfully there is a corresponding improvement in quality for this set.

Ozu Collection Volume 2

Noel Megahey reviews the second volume of Tartan's Ozu Collection, containing two delightful films from the director's golden post-war period - Record of a Tenement Gentleman and Flavour of Green Tea over Rice.

Ozu Collection Volume 1

Noel Megahey reviews volume 1 of Tartan's Ozu Collection releases, containing three of the director's best films - Late Spring, Early Summer and Tokyo Story.

The End of Summer

Noel Megahey has reviewed The End of Summer, the second Ozu film released by Artificial Eye and one of the director's last and most sombre films.

Floating Weeds

Noel Megahey has reviewed Yasujiro Ozu's Floating Weeds, a beautifully filmed and moving late film from the great master of Japanese cinema.