An Autumn Afternoon (1962) BluRay 720p AC3 x264 CHD

xich_lo_vn · Aug 1, 2012

An Autumn Afternoon (1962) BluRay 720p AC3 x264 CHD
AKA : Sanma no aji | An Autumn Afternoon | Il gusto del sakè | El gusto del saké | Le goût du saké
Year : 1962
Country : Japan
Language : Japanese
Subtitles : Chinese, English, French, Italian, Korean, Portuguese Brazilian, Russian, Spanish
Film Genre : Drama

Director/Writer: Yasujirô Ozu
Cast: Chishû Ryû, Shima Iwashita and Keiji Sada
Plot: Yasujirô Ozu died in 1963 on his 60th birthday, making An Autumn Afternoon his last film. It seems to sum up a lot of Ozu’s recurrent themes in an appropriately all-encompassing way - looking back on the past with fondness and mixed feelings, being concerned about the world that has been left for the younger generation, while at the same time being full of life, sentiment and humour. It is a gentle domestic drama about middle-class family life, a shomin-geki characteristic of his home studio, Shochiku. More specifically, it belongs to a particular subgroup of these films whose central story turns on the question of whether a young woman deemed of marrying age will wed or will remain at home to look after her widowed parent. In this case, even though her younger brother, Kazuo, has also yet to leave home, Michiko Hirayama (Shima Iwashita) seems to be in no hurry to wed; nor indeed has her father (Chishû Ryû) given the matter much thought. Still, his old college friends and drinking pals Professor Horie—recently remarried, to a woman little older than Michiko—and Mr. Kawai keep telling Hirayama he should find a husband for his daughter before she turns into a lonely, embittered old maid like the daughter of “the Gourd,” a former teacher they’ve recently reencountered. Eventually, after reflection, some discussion with Michiko, and one failed attempt, Hirayama succeeds in following their advice.
As with all of Ozu’s films, he uses the lens of the middles class Japanese domestic life to look at the changing of Japanese society in a wider context. All of his films, it seems, had been pointing towards this inevitable conclusion. East versus West, past versus future, old versus young, have always been the conflicting themes. Finally, in An Autumn Afternoon, Ozu’s characters, each of them familiar faces from all of his films, favorite actors used throughout his career now visibly older, give in to the inevitability of the younger generation and their changing, more Westernized sensibilities and mores having taken over. An Autumn Afternoon, then, can be looked at as an elegy to a bygone era, but not a sad one, more a romanticized and meticulously comedic farewell to the past and a glimpse at the modernity of the Japanese future to come.

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An Autumn Afternoon (1962) BluRay 720p AC3 x264 CHD

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