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Title: An Autumn Afternoon / A Hen in the Wind (DVD + Blu-ray)
Condition: New
Format: Blu-ray
EAN: 5035673010723
Release Date: 23/05/2011
Description: The Ozu Collection

AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON + A HEN IN THE WIND (DVD + Blu-ray)
Films by Yasujiro Ozu

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 life's 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.

Special Features

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

Japan 1962 + 1948 colour + black and white Japanese language, English subtitles 113 minutes + 80 minutes Original aspect ratio 1.33:1

Disc 1: BD25 1080p 24fps PCM mono audio (48k/16-bit)
Disc 2: DVD9 PAL Dolby Digital mono audio (320kbps)

Region B Blu-ray
Region 2 DVD
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Studio: BFI Video
Language: Japanese
Subtitle Language: English
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Actor: Shima Iwashita, Chishu Ryu, Kinuyo Tanaka, Shuji Sano
No Of Discs: 2
Run Time: 3 hours and 13 minutes
Region Code: Blu-ray: B (Europe, AU, NZ, Africa...)
: 23/05/2011
Release Year: 2011

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