Blu-ray release: ‘Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu’
By Phil Mills | Mar 6, 2024
BFI are bringing a collection of two films from Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu to UK Blu-ray on April 15, 2024.
From his early silent films to his final features in the 1960s, Ozu perfected a style that stripped away unnecessary plot mechanics and camera movement. In doing so, he produced a cinema whose surface simplicity belies character studies of depth, warmth and on occasion, humour. This release features two newly restored films, presented on Blu-ray including a longer and previously unreleased version of ‘There Was a Father’.
I Was Born, But… (1932, 91 mins)
As brothers Ryoichi and Keiji struggle to outwit the local bully and scale the pecking order in their new neighbourhood they find out that injustice does not end with school.
There Was a Father (1942, 93 mins)
Shuhei Horikawa sacrifices his teaching career after an unfortunate accident but refuses to sacrifice the education of his only son.
Features:
• Newly restored and presented in High Definition
• Newly recorded audio commentaries on both films by Adrian Martin
• Illustrated booklet [First Pressing only]
‘Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu’ is available to pre-order now from Amazon.co.uk.
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