Ozu

Silent Ozu — Three Crime Dramas (1930-1933) [Criterion Collection, Eclipse Series 42]
DVD Video, 3 x DVD5 | 1hr 40mn + 1hr 36mn + 1hr 05mn | NTSC 4:3 | 720x480 | 3 x ~ 4.2 Gb
Japanese (日本語): Dolby AC3, 2 ch, 384 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance

An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
BDRip 1080p | MKV | 1480x1080 | x264 @ 22,6 Mbps | 113 min | 18,17 Gb
Audio: Japanese FLAC 1.0 @ 219 Kbps + English Commentary | Subs: English
Genre: Drama

Hijôsen no onna / Dragnet Girl (1933) [Criterion Collection, Eclipse Series 42]
DVDRip | MKV | AVC 720x480, ~ 1.6 Mbps | 1hr 40mn | 1.39 GB
Japanese: Dolby AC3, 2 ch, 384 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance

Sono yo no tsuma / That Night's Wife (1930) [Criterion Collection, Eclipse Series 42]
DVDRip | MKV | AVC 720x480, ~ 1.6 Mbps | 1hr 05mn | 941 MB
Japanese: Dolby AC3, 2 ch, 384 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Crime, Drama

Hogaraka ni ayume / Walk Cheerfully (1930) [Criterion Collection, Eclipse Series 42]
DVDRip | MKV | AVC 720x480, ~ 1.6 Mbps | 1hr 36mn | 1.33 GB
Japanese: Dolby AC3, 2 ch, 384 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance

An Autumn Afternoon / Sanma no aji (1962) [Criterion Collection, Spine #446]
Blu-Ray | BDMV | AVC, 1920x1080, ~34.7 Mbps | 1hr 53mn | 36,7 GB
Japanese: LPCM Audio, 1 ch, 1152 kbps; English: AC3, 1 ch, 192 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

Good Morning (1959)
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.

Tokyo-Ga (1985)
German director Wim Wenders made this documentary in which he tries to explore the Tokyo that was depicted in the films of Yasujiro Ozu. When Wenders visits Tokyo for the first time, he finds a very different city, one with a booming fascination with technology that often clashes with the traditional elements of Japanese culture. Wenders also interviews Ozu's cinematographer, Yuharu Atsuta, and Chishu Ryu, an actor who frequently collaborated with Ozu.

Tokyo Family (2013)
In this film director Yoji Yamada bows down before his teacher and role model. Yamada was assistant director on Yazujirō Ozu’s Tōkyō monogatari, a moving family portrait set after the Second World War. In his remake, Yamada has made very few departures from Ozu’s masterpiece in order to update the story of ageing couple Shukichi and Tomiko to present day Japan. Once again, the pair decides to leave their quiet lives in the country to pay a visit to their children and grandchildren in Tokyo. Once there, they discover that neither their oldest son, a doctor named Koichi, nor their eldest daughter Shigeko - who runs a beauty parlour - has time for them: both are too busy attending to their everyday concerns. Even the youngest son went his own way. The old couple feel lonely and bewildered in the fast-paced metropolis.

Daughters, Wives and a Mother (1960)
This film features a large extended family (and associates) even more extensive than the one portrayed by Ozu in "End of Summer". The central character is Setsuko Hara -- a poised middle-aged woman, whose wealthy (and prestigious) husband dies at the outset of the action, leaving her widowed but holding the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-laws have no objection to her return to her own family.