Compare and contrast: a rare early work by Ozu and a modern classic by Hou, offered in conjunction with a conference on Ozu and his cinematic legacy.
Read full descriptionHou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan, 1989). A family lives through Taiwan's independence from Japan, and later political crackdown, in Hou's masterpiece, starring Hong Kong superstar Tony Leung. “One of the supreme masterworks of contemporary cinema.”-Jonathan Rosenbaum (158 mins)
Yasujiro Ozu (Japan, 1930). Judith Rosenberg on piano. Ozu tweaks the conventions of the American-style crime melodrama even as he employs them in this rarely screened thriller. (67 mins)