Eclipse from the Criterion Collection

Late Ozu

Edition no. 3

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Release Date: Tuesday, 12 June 2007
Country of Release: USA
MSRP: $69.95

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Shochiku

Directed by: Yasujiro Ozu

Featuring: Chikage Awajima, Setsuko Hara, Shin Saburi, Ganjiro Nakamura, Ryo Ikebe, Ineko Arima, Yoko Tsukasa, Keiko Kishi, Chishu Ryu, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mariko Okada, Teiji Takahashi, Isuzu Yamada, Keiji Sata, Michiyo Aratama, Keiji Kobayashi, So Yamamura, Masami Taura, Miyuki Kuwano, Sadako Sawamaru, Masahiko Shimazu, Haruko Sugimura, Hisaya Morishige, Chieko Naniwa, Nobuo Nakamura, Reiko Dan, Daisuke Kato

Master filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu directed fifty-three feature films over the course of his long career. Yet it was in the final decade of his life, his “old master” phase, that he entered his artistic prime. Centered more than ever on the modern sensibilities of the younger generation, these delicate family dramas are marked by an exquisite formal elegance and emotional sensitivity about birth and death, love and marriage, and all the accompanying joys and loneliness. Along with such better-known films as Floating Weeds and An Autumn Afternoon, these five works illustrate the worldly wisdom of one of cinema’s great artists at the height of his powers.

Year: 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1960 | 1961
Time: 145 | 141 | 118 | 128 | 103 min.