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Late Spring (Banshun) (Criterion Collection)

Late Spring (Banshun) (Criterion Collection)

Criterion Collection (1949)
Drama | Foreign
Japan | Japanese | Black & White | 01:48
Criterion Collection
Blu-ray
NR (Not Rated)
715515094412
| 1 disc
Region A

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.


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Chishu Ryu Shukichi Somiya
Setsuko Hara Noriko Somiya
Yumeji Tsukioka Aya Kitagawa
Haruko Sugimura Masa Taguchi
Hohi Aoki Katsuyoshi
Jun Usami Shôichi Hattori
Kuniko Miyake Akiko Miwa
Masao Mishima Jo Onodera
Yoshiko Tsubouchi Kiku
Yoko Katsuragi Misako
Toyo Takahashi Shige
Jun Tanizaki Seizô Hayashi
Ichiro Shimizu Takigawa's master
Yôko Benisawa Teahouse Proprietress
Manzaburo Umewaka Shite
Nobu Nojima Waki
Ichiro Kitamura Little drum
Haruo Yasufuku Big drum
Soichi Konparu
Tadaichi Aoki Prompter
Nagahiro Yoshida
Seiju Kanze Nô chorus
Shintaro Umewaka Nô chorus
Shizuo Kanze Nô chorus
Seiji Toda Nô chorus

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Added Date Feb 12, 2019 17:26:22
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Edition details

Screen Ratios Fullscreen (4:3)
Audio Tracks SUB [English]
Distributor Criterion Collection
Edition Release Date Apr 17, 2012

Notes

2019 Birthday gift from the Carters


SPECIAL FEATURES
New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
Audio commentary by Richard Peña, program director of New York’s Film Society of Lincoln Center
Tokyo-ga (1985), filmmaker Wim Wenders’s ninety-two-minute documentary about director Yasujiro Ozu
PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critic Michael Atkinson and Japanese-film historian Donald Richie, as well as Ozu’s thoughts on screenwriter Kogo Noda
New cover by Neil Kellerhouse

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