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Ozu Yasujiro: 100th Anniversary Collection 1 - Early Spring

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Product Title: Ozu Yasujiro: 100th Anniversary Collection 1 - Early Spring 小津安二郎百年紀念全集 1 - 早春 小津安二郎百年纪念全集 1 - 早春 Ozu Yasujiro: 100th Anniversary Collection 1 - Early Spring Ozu Yasujiro: 100th Anniversary Collection 1 - Early Spring
Artist Name(s): Ikebe Ryo | Kishi Keiko (Actor) | Awashima Chikage 池部良 | 岸惠子 (Actor) | 淡島千景 池部良 | 岸惠子 (Actor) | Awashima Chikage 池部良 | 岸恵子 (Actor) | 淡島千景 Ikebe Ryo | Kishi Keiko (Actor) | Awashima Chikage
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Release Date: 2003-12-23
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English, Traditional Chinese
Country of Origin: Japan
Picture Format: NTSC What is it?
Disc Format(s): DVD
Region Code: 3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan) What is it?
Duration: 144 (mins)
Publisher: Shu Kei Creative Work (HK)
Package Weight: 110 (g)
Shipment Unit: 1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1003030472

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Screen Format：4：3
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導演：小津安二郎
Director: Ozu Yasujiro

　　日復一日；年年月月！
　　夫妻同床不同心；同語不同話！
　　愛；怎麼會變得難言？
　　愛；怎麼會變成遺憾？

　　小津安二郎稱本片為「陋巷知識份子電影」，描寫的是生活刻板、精神苦悶的年輕上班族。主角杉三正二對工作和妻子都感到厭倦，在綽號「金魚」的女同事金子千代的挑逗下發展了婚外情，卻被妻子發現而互不理睬。正二的好友病逝，自己又被公司調到鄉下岡田。妻子後來還是追隨而來，二人同意從頭開始。

　　影片情節十分平淡，小津刻意避開了戲劇化的事件，為的是想觀眾更深刻地感受到上班族生活的悲哀。電影最初平平無奇，但越看下去越有戲味，最後夫妻二人答應放下齟齬，從新開始時，既教人感動也覺哀慟，復心有慼慼然而低徊不已。

　　The life of the salaried office-worker in modern Japan is a theme often treated by Japanese films, but never with the devastating thoroughness of Early Spring. A young man is bored with the dreary predictability of his job and his marriage and succumbs to an affair with the office flirt. He and his wife quarrel He is transferred out of Tokyo to Osaka. His wife comes back to him and they agree to start over. The story, as such, is so slight that its choice seems purposeful, Ozu choosing it so that he could reconstruct a full study of the characters undistracted by irrelevant ploy complications. It is about nothing at all, yet told with such subtlety and compassion that the experience becomes a very moving one.

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Average Customer Rating for this Edition: Customer Review Rated Bad 9 - 9 out of 10 (1)

Kevin Kennedy
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February 5, 2008
Unhappy lives of salarymen Customer Review Rated Bad 9 - 9 out of 10
"Early Spring" is a long, fierce wail concerning the grim and empty lives of salarymen. Indeed, of this film, Ozu wrote: "I tried to avoid anything dramatic, and instead piled up scenes where nothing at all happens, so as to let the audience feel the sadness of their existence."

"Early Spring" focuses on a 30ish married couple in Tokyo, Sugiyama Masako (Awajima Chikage) and his wife Shoji (Ikebe Ryo). After the death of their infant baby, the couple has grown remote from each other. Shoji complains about her daily routine and fantasizes about what life might be like as a widow. Masako has a grindingly boring office job, then escapes into games of mahjong, parties with old war buddies, and the arms of a willing young woman known as Goldfish (Kishi Keiko). This clearly is a marriage coming apart at the seams.

After Goldfish shows up at Masako's home, Shoji decides that she has had enough and moves out. Masako then is transferred to an equally tedious job at the company's manufacturing operations in a small town. He moves there without his wife and with nothing to do in his free time. Is this all that life offers to salarymen and their wives or is their hope for something more? Watch this movie to see Ozu's answer.

There are some terrific performances in this film. Particularly good are Awajima Chikage and Kishi Keiko. I was familiar with (and very impressed by) Ms. Kishi's work is such 1970s films as "Le Rendezvous", "Hunter in the Dark", and "Tora-San Loves an Artist". I was stunned to see her looking so young and wanton in this film.

This is not a particularly good transfer of this film to DVD. The images are quite dark and sometimes grainy. There also are occasional problems with the English subtitles. Nonetheless, I recommend very highly this unsparing look at the fate of Japanese salarymen.
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