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YES! Late Spring WITH Tokyo Ga! Best "EXTRA" (if that's what you wanna call it) since Werner Herzog eats his shoe on Burden of Dreams. So I guess this means we won't be getting any Ozu box sets as once predicted.....

I'm as pleased to be getting a bonus Tokyo-Ga as the next guy, but it's hardly the definitive Ozu documentary. In fact, I don't think I'd even classify it as an Ozu documentary (just as I wouldn't classify Sans Soleil as a Hitchcock documentary), so I don't think we should be reading anything about Criterion's long-term Ozu plans into its inclusion here. I'm still idiotically expecting that Ozu silents box set sometime around 2017.

Wasn't there a commentary recorded for THE ONLY SON by Donald Richie that was suppose to be for criterion? What ever happened to that?

double discer! Nice, but nothing to suggest "More!"

Finally Tokyo-ga =D> I had the privilege of visiting Ozu-san's grave last September... An Autumn Afternoon, if you will. Any fellow pilgrims on the board?

While amazon.com doesn't have Late Spring listed as a DVD just yet, End of Summer and Late Autumn are (listed, but nothing much in the way of details). I may be overexcited, but what the hey - can we expect anything?

I noticed that there are many Ozu DVDs out there on ebay released by Boying, of course they are bootleg, but they are pretty good (I have some)

King of Kong wrote:While amazon.com doesn't have Late Spring listed as a DVD just yet, End of Summer and Late Autumn are (listed, but nothing much in the way of details). I may be overexcited, but what the hey - can we expect anything?

Those are definitely not Criterion releases. CC doesn't give product info to Amazon that far in advance (after all, Late Spring isn't up on Amazon yet even though it's already on their Coming Soon page).

I'm very encouraged by those Amazon listings (I especially love Late Autumn), but there's really nothing conclusive we can take from this. Take for example this Amazon listing for Rosetta, which has been up since 2002.

Street date of 9th May and product page up at criteriondvd.com...

Vincent Canby review of Tokyo-ga, NYTimes, April 26, 1985

What A Disgrace wrote:Back cover art.

Mmmmm. I can't explain why, but I could really go for a Coke right now.

Just picked mine up. Looks good...we're back to the original double cases (no postcard). Going to revisit my Kamakura trip with Tokyo-ga first.

Some caps.

There are more but will add links rather than add them here, unless...

Wow! I hope those are representative, because I never imagined I'd see this film looking so good!

Very, very beautiful. I can't believe how good it looks, windowboxed or no.

zedz wrote:Wow! I hope those are representative, because I never imagined I'd see this film looking so good!

That there are a few rough patches is to be expected considering the film's age, but have to say that overall, this is a very lovely transfer.

This reminds me how emotionally powerful it is when we first see Setsuko Hara in her wedding dress. What a magnificent film this is!

zedz wrote:This reminds me how emotionally powerful it is when we first see Setsuko Hara in her wedding dress. What a magnificent film this is!

Indeed it is, and Hara breaks my heart every time.

Okay, here are a few caps from Tokyo-Ga and then it's off to my little cinema...






Be happy!

Looks sublime...

A lovely transer, but is anyone else bemused/baffled/depressed at the fact they only windowboxed the feature and not Tokyo-Ga? As if Wenders can somehow take the cropping but Ozu can't?

I also wonder if this is the only feature-length film they've put out with no subs.

???

All japanese & no subs on a CC? April 1 was a month ago.

No, I mean on Tokyo-Ga. It's mostly in English, but still, CCs always have a sub track.