#989: OZU, Yasujiro: The Flavor Of Green Tea Over Rice (1952)
OZU, Yasujiro (Japan)
The Flavor Of Green Tea Over Rice [1952]
Spine #989
Blu-ray
The Booklet
Ten-page wraparound featuring an essay by scholar Junji Yoshida.
Commentary
None.
1937 feature
What Did the Lady Forget?
Video essay
By film scholar David Bordwell.
Ozu & Noda
A documentary by Daniel Raim on Ozu’s longtime collaboration with screenwriter Noda.
Extras Rating (0-40):
The Flavor Of Green Tea Over Rice [1952]
Spine #989
Blu-ray
One of the ineffably lovely domestic sagas made by Yasujiro Ozu at the height of his mastery, The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice is a sublimely piercing portrait of a marriage coming quietly undone. Secrets and deceptions strain the already tenuous relationship of a childless, middle-aged couple, as the wife's city-bred sophistication bumps up against the husband's small-town simplicity, and a generational sea change — in the form of her headstrong, modern niece — sweeps over their household. The director's abiding concern with family dynamics receives one of its most spirited treatments, with a wry, tender humor and buoyant expansiveness that moves the action from the home into the baseball stadiums, pachinko parlors, and ramen shops of postwar Tokyo.
116 minutes
Black & White
Monaural
in Japanese
1:37:1 aspect ratio
Monaural
in Japanese
1:37:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2019
Director/Writers
Script by Kogo Noda and Yasujiro Ozu.
Ozu was 49 when he directed The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice.
Other Ozu films in the Collection:
Eclipse Series 42: Walk Cheerfully (1930)
Eclipse Series 42: That Night's Wife (1930)
Eclipse Series 10: Tokyo Chorus (1931)
Eclipse Series 10: I Was Born, But . . . (1932)
Eclipse Series 42: Dragnet Girl (1933)
Eclipse Series 42: Passing Fancy (1933)
#232: A Story Of Floating Weeds (1934)
#525: The Only Son (1936)
#526: There Was A Father (1942)
#331: Late Spring (1949)
#240: Early Summer (1951)
#217: Tokyo Story (1953)
Eclipse Series 3:Early Spring (1956)
Eclipse Series 3: Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Eclipse Series 3: Equinox Flower (1958)
#84: Good Morning (1959)
#232: Floating Weeds (1959)
Eclipse Series 3: Late Autumn (1960)
Eclipse Series 3: End Of Summer (1961)
#446: An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
The Film
Other Ozu films in the Collection:
Eclipse Series 42: Walk Cheerfully (1930)
Eclipse Series 42: That Night's Wife (1930)
Eclipse Series 10: Tokyo Chorus (1931)
Eclipse Series 10: I Was Born, But . . . (1932)
Eclipse Series 42: Dragnet Girl (1933)
Eclipse Series 42: Passing Fancy (1933)
#232: A Story Of Floating Weeds (1934)
#525: The Only Son (1936)
#526: There Was A Father (1942)
#331: Late Spring (1949)
#240: Early Summer (1951)
#217: Tokyo Story (1953)
Eclipse Series 3:Early Spring (1956)
Eclipse Series 3: Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Eclipse Series 3: Equinox Flower (1958)
#84: Good Morning (1959)
#232: Floating Weeds (1959)
Eclipse Series 3: Late Autumn (1960)
Eclipse Series 3: End Of Summer (1961)
#446: An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
The Film
A
Film Rating (0-60):
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Ten-page wraparound featuring an essay by scholar Junji Yoshida.
Commentary
None.
1937 feature
What Did the Lady Forget?
Video essay
By film scholar David Bordwell.
Ozu & Noda
A documentary by Daniel Raim on Ozu’s longtime collaboration with screenwriter Noda.
Extras Rating (0-40):
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