I also recently purchased the Eclipse Series 3: Late Ozu box set with: Early Spring/Tokyo Twilight/Equinox Flower/Late Autumn/The End of Summer. The first film I watched, Early Spring (1955), is his first film after his most successful triumph, Tokyo Story (1953). This film focuses on Japanese office workers known as salarymen. The main story revolves around a young couple that previously had a son die early after birth. The couple seems to be drifting apart as the husband falls into an affair that he regrets. He leaves for a distant province to accept a sort of promotion outside of Tokyo. Later his wife follows him and they vow to rebuild their marriage. It is a fairly simple and straightforward story but it reveals a lot about the group dynamic present at the office as well as the drudgery of that lifestyle.
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I'm a huge Ozu fan, having even broken down to buy the Japanese only box sets. Some of the later stuff is fantastic. Late Spring is a personal fave...
Posted by: ted | February 09, 2010 at 04:52 AM
Yeah, I like Ozu but not as much as Kurosawa and Imamaura. I still need to see Late Spring though.
Posted by: MC | February 09, 2010 at 02:33 PM