Yasujiro Ozu
11/23/03 to 12/21/03
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Days of Youth
Sunday, November 23 5:30 pmJoel Adlen on Piano. Ozu's early high-spirited college comedy shows the influence of Lloyd and Lubitsch. With shorts A Straightforward Boy and I Graduated, But...View DetailsTokyo Story
Friday, November 28 3:30 pmThis simple, sad story of the gap between generations in a Japanese family revealed to Western viewers the poetic acuteness of Ozu's style. "Wonderful....One of the manifest miracles of cinema."-The New YorkerView DetailsLate Spring
Saturday, November 29 2:00 pmChishu Ryu and Setsuko Hara as father and daughter in a deceptively simple, eloquent story of filial devotion and parental sacrifice. A near-perfect film, and one of Ozu's own favorites.View DetailsAn Autumn Afternoon
Saturday, November 29 4:10 pmChishu Ryu once again plays a widowed father planning to marry off his daughter in Ozu's beautiful, bittersweet last film. "Quietly tears your heart to pieces."-Terence DaviesView DetailsTokyo Story
Sunday, November 30 2:00 pmThis simple, sad story of the gap between generations in a Japanese family revealed to Western viewers the poetic acuteness of Ozu's style. "Wonderful....One of the manifest miracles of cinema."-The New YorkerView DetailsI Was Born, But...
Sunday, November 30 5:30 pmJudith Rosenberg on Piano. A comedy about a typical wage-earner with two delightfully atypical sons. "One of the wisest and most charming films ever made."-Village VoiceView DetailsWhere Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
Sunday, November 30 7:25 pmJudith Rosenberg on Piano. Depression-era college comedy "moves seamlessly through farce to melancholy."-Hong Hong Film FestivalView DetailsWoman of Tokyo
Thursday, December 4 5:30 pmFree Screening! Joel Adlen on Piano. This Depression-era romantic melodrama is "a subtle riot of discordant formal devices....Ozu never made another film like this one, and neither has anyone else."-Village Voice. Repeated on December 11.View DetailsWalk Cheerfully
Thursday, December 4 7:00 pmJoel Adlen on Piano. Stylish comedy set in a world of petty thieves, con men, and flappers.View DetailsI Flunked, But...
Thursday, December 4 9:00 pmJoel Adlen on Piano. Ozu finds infectious humor in Depression-era realities.View DetailsAn Inn at Tokyo
Friday, December 5 7:30 pmA laid-off factory worker hits the road with his two sons in this beautifully observed film. "Probably the masterpiece of Ozu's silent period."-Noel BurchView DetailsThe Only Son
Friday, December 5 9:10 pmIn Ozu's first sound feature, a small-town widow sacrifices everything so her son can better himself in Tokyo; visiting him, she faces bitter disappointment. "A small masterpiece of haunting grace and economy."-Village Voice.View DetailsWhat Did the Lady Forget?
Saturday, December 6 3:00 pmA thoroughly modern niece disrupts the lives of a professor and his socialite wife in this splendid satire on Tokyo's suburban bourgeoisie. "Wry, affectionate, and ironic."-DonaldView DetailsThe Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
Saturday, December 6 4:35 pmThe death of a patriarch leaves his family in a financial bind. Ozu prefigures Tokyo Story in this tale of children too preoccupied with their own affairs to care for relatives in need.View DetailsThat Night's Wife
Sunday, December 7 5:30 pmJudith Rosenberg on Piano. A crime melodrama inspired by Fritz Lang and American thrillers. As ever, Ozu tests the conventions as he employs them.View DetailsThe Lady and the Beard
Tuesday, December 9 7:00 pmJoel Adlen on Piano. A gleefully ribald comedy about a collegian kendo swordfighter who passionately loves his beard and despises all modern ways. But then he shaves....View DetailsTokyo Chorus
Tuesday, December 9 8:35 pmJoel Adlen on Piano. Acerbic satire and flawlessly timed slapstick enliven this tragicomedy of an office worker who gets fired for defying his boss.View DetailsWoman of Tokyo
Thursday, December 11 7:30 pmJudith Rosenberg on Piano. This Depression-era romantic melodrama is "a subtle riot of discordant formal devices....Ozu never made another film like this one, and neither has anyone else."-Village VoiceView DetailsA Mother Should Be Loved
Thursday, December 11 8:40 pmJudith Rosenberg on Piano. On the death of their father, brothers discover they had different mothers. A very rare film, demonstrating Ozu's impeccable skill at domestic melodrama.View DetailsThere Was a Father
Friday, December 12 7:30 pmThis sensitive drama about the separation of a widowed father and his son echoes Ozu's own experience. "Ozu's last masterpiece...almost excruciatingly sublimated."-Noel BurchView DetailsThe Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Friday, December 12 9:20 pmAn unsentimental and funny treatment of a sentimental subject: an abandoned boy in postwar Japan taken in by a widow who claims to dislike children.View DetailsEarly Summer
Saturday, December 13 4:00 pm"I was interested in getting much deeper than just the story itself; I wanted to depict the cycles of life, the transience of life" (Ozu). An exquisite, faintly melancholy portrait of a family, with Setsuko Hara as the daughter on whose marriage everything depends.View DetailsA Hen in the Wind
Saturday, December 13 7:00 pmA former POW comes home to Japan to discover that his wife has prostituted herself to pay their son's hospital bills. "Ozu brilliantly and honestly confronts the postwar moment."-Joan MellenView DetailsPassing Fancy
Sunday, December 14 5:30 pmJoel Adlen on Piano. Inspired by King Vidor's The Champ, a vivacious comedy of a single father whose young son disapproves of his brief love affair.View DetailsA Story of Floating Weeds
Sunday, December 14 7:30 pmJoel Adlen on Piano. This poetic, quietly devastating story finds the leader of a down-at-heels theater troupe meeting his grown son, the fruit of a casual affair years earlier. "A picture of great atmosphere and intensity of character."-Donald RichieView DetailsEarly Spring
Wednesday, December 17 7:30 pmA salaryman's marriage is threatened when, stifled by routine, he indulges in an affair. Observing the subtle rituals and rhythms of the work day, "I wanted to...let the viewer experience the peculiar sadness of the office man's existence."-OzuView DetailsThe Flavor of Green Tea over Rice
Thursday, December 18 7:00 pmA series of extraordinarily revealing domestic details forms a portrait of middle-class marriage, domestic tension, and reconciliation.View DetailsEquinox Flower
Thursday, December 18 9:15 pmTeenage girls quietly rebel against their traditional parents' plans. "Gentle and amused in the way that it acknowledges time's passage, the changing of values, and the adjustments that have to be made between generations."-N.Y. TimesView DetailsTokyo Twilight
Friday, December 19 7:00 pmIn his last black-and-white film, Ozu tackles issues of abortion and suicide, depicting the disintegration of a family with unexpected toughness.View DetailsThe Munekata Sisters
Friday, December 19 9:40 pmA liberated young woman tries to reunite her more conservative older sister with a former flame in this atmospheric study of tradition and modernity in postwar Japan.View DetailsGood Morning
Saturday, December 20 2:00 pmOzu's "bad boys" strike again! This reworking of I Was Born, But... is a genial comedy of manners centered around an icon of 1950s domesticity: the television set.View DetailsLate Autumn
Saturday, December 20 4:00 pmComing full circle from Late Spring, Setsuko Hara plays a widowed mother pushing her unwilling daughter to marry. "Exquisite and not to be missed."-New RepublicView DetailsFloating Weeds
Sunday, December 21 2:30 pmGlorious color photography by Kazuo Miyagawa brings new intensity to this remake of Ozu's 1934 story about a traveling actor encountering his illegitimate son.View DetailsThe End of Summer
Sunday, December 21 5:30 pmThis chronicle of a sake-brewing family combines humorous touches with an acute awareness of mortality. "One of Ozu's most beautiful films, it is one of his most disturbing."-Donald RichieView Details
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