Flowers (Norihiro Koizumi, 2010)

[manicsounds]

Trailer

Being heavily promoted in Japan currently towards women (with a June 12th release date), the film seems to be 6 stories of 6 females in different periods of time in Japan in the last 100 years.

This seriously looks like the ultimate Yasujiro Ozu homage. Whether these will be 6 separate stories in 6 chapters or 6 stories intercut, I have no idea. But as an Ozu fan and a fan of Japanese cinema, I'm interested.

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[Michael Kerpan]

Ozu never made anything remotely similar -- if he showed multiple generations, he dealt with them all at once -- not consecutively (in separate sub-stories). Much more like something Kinoshita might have done. ;~}

But it does seem like a celebration of many of Japan's most popular young actresses, so it might be worth seeing for this reason.

[manicsounds]

I meant it is an Ozu homage, with female leads, film stock and color choice, camera angles, but NOT with the multiple stories. It does seem like a few different Ozu movies cut together, but it would be hard to say what he may have done in the 1970s and beyond, as there are I believe 3 of the stories taking place at that time.

[AttitudeAJM]

It looks like an homage to different eras of Japanese filmmaking. The black and white scenes with Yu Aoi seem very Ozu like. Some of the later stuff reminds me of different periods on the 70's and 90's.