Brothers And Sisters Of The Toda Family (Hong Kong Version) VCD
Fujino Hideo (Actor)
| Katsuragi Fumiko (Actor)
| Yoshikawa Mitsuko (Actor)
| Saito Tatsudo (Actor)
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| Product Title: | Brothers And Sisters Of The Toda Family (Hong Kong Version) 戶田家兄妹 (香港版) 户田家兄妹 (香港版) Brothers And Sisters Of The Toda Family (Hong Kong Version) Brothers And Sisters Of The Toda Family (Hong Kong Version) |
| Artist Name(s): | Fujino Hideo (Actor) | Katsuragi Fumiko (Actor) | Yoshikawa Mitsuko (Actor) | Saito Tatsudo (Actor) 藤野秀夫 (Actor) | 葛城文子 (Actor) | 吉川 滿子 (Actor) | 齋藤達雄 (Actor) Fujino Hideo (Actor) | Katsuragi Fumiko (Actor) | 吉川满子 (Actor) | Saito Tatsudo (Actor) Fujino Hideo (Actor) | Katsuragi Fumiko (Actor) | 吉川滿子 (Actor) | Saito Tatsudo (Actor) Fujino Hideo (Actor) | Katsuragi Fumiko (Actor) | Yoshikawa Mitsuko (Actor) | Saito Tatsudo (Actor) |
| Director: | Ozu Yasujiro 小津安二郎 小津安二郎 小津安二郎 Ozu Yasujiro |
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| Release Date: | 2005-08-09 |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Subtitles: | Traditional Chinese |
| Country of Origin: | Japan |
| Disc Format(s): | VCD |
| Duration: | 105 (mins) |
| Publisher: | Panorama (HK) |
| Other Information: | 2VCDs |
| Package Weight: | 110 (g) |
| Shipment Unit: | 1 What is it? |
| YesAsia Catalog No.: | 1004049683 |
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導演︰小津安二郎
Director: Ozu Yasujiro
本片可以說是《我們要愛母親》的變奏。故事講述戶田家本是一個大家族，一向意氣風發，可是當一家之主病逝後，整個家族便起了很大的變化。妻子為他的身後事日夜奔波勞碌，處理過遺產之後，家道中落，兒子要跑到中國的天津工作，母親帶著最小的女兒被迫搬往各子女的家中居住，結果母親跟媳婦日漸不和，家庭的凝聚力隨著父親的猝死而逐漸瓦解，母女最後被迫躲到海邊破屋，感到無限的唏噓與孤寂。片末的蒼涼處境，跟片首造成強烈對比，三代同堂場面處理細緻動人，盡顯了小津強烈而成熟的個人風格。
The first box-office hit for Ozu in Japan, The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family anticipates the later masterpieces such as Tokyo Story and The End of Summer. After the death of the father of an upper-class family, his wife and daughter has to struggle to survive. Tensions arise when they moved in with a married son, so they continue to move around from one household to the next, but they are always unwelcomed. When her youngest son returns from work in Tianjin, he scolds his siblings for their selfishness.
Director: Ozu Yasujiro
本片可以說是《我們要愛母親》的變奏。故事講述戶田家本是一個大家族，一向意氣風發，可是當一家之主病逝後，整個家族便起了很大的變化。妻子為他的身後事日夜奔波勞碌，處理過遺產之後，家道中落，兒子要跑到中國的天津工作，母親帶著最小的女兒被迫搬往各子女的家中居住，結果母親跟媳婦日漸不和，家庭的凝聚力隨著父親的猝死而逐漸瓦解，母女最後被迫躲到海邊破屋，感到無限的唏噓與孤寂。片末的蒼涼處境，跟片首造成強烈對比，三代同堂場面處理細緻動人，盡顯了小津強烈而成熟的個人風格。
The first box-office hit for Ozu in Japan, The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family anticipates the later masterpieces such as Tokyo Story and The End of Summer. After the death of the father of an upper-class family, his wife and daughter has to struggle to survive. Tensions arise when they moved in with a married son, so they continue to move around from one household to the next, but they are always unwelcomed. When her youngest son returns from work in Tianjin, he scolds his siblings for their selfishness.
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Ozu's classic on filial duty
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"Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family" must be the most Confucian of director Ozu Yasujiro's films, being essentially an essay in fictional form on the duties that children owe their parents. The movie tells of the travails of the Toda family. After the patriarch of the clan passes away, the family discovers that he died deep in debt. They must sell the family home to cover the debt, leaving Mrs. Toda and Setsuko, the family's youngest daughter, without a home of their own. They are taken in by each of Setsuko's siblings in turn, but the siblings feel cramped and unhappy with the imposition of having their mother reside with them. Eventually, Mrs. Toda and Setsuko end up living at the family's worthless, run-down seaside cottage. Setsuko's brother Shojiro returns from Tianjin, China, for the anniversary of Mr. Toda's death and discovers the state to which his mother has fallen. He rails at his siblings and asks them to leave the post-anniversary family dinner. Shojiro then asks his mother and sister to live with him in Tianjin and they accept, grateful to have a son (and brother) who is willing and eager to take them in. To close the film, Ozu lightens the mood with a comic sequence in which Setsuko asks Shojiro to marry her best friend and his shyness causes him to flee when the friend comes to visit. Ozu uncovers some hard truths about our selfishness in this film. The movie was particularly affecting for me because my own family recently went through a similar episode. Consequently, I know from my own experience that Ozu has dealt honestly and faithfully with his subject matter. I have downgraded this DVD slightly due to the spotty quality of this print of the film. Every ten minutes or so (I assume at the beginning or the end of each of the film's reels), there are a few moments (and at one point a few minutes) during which the quality of the film's sound and image are disrupted. Nonetheless, I recommend this excellent film very highly. |
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