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Tokyo Twilight (Hong Kong Version) DVD Region 3

Hara Setsuko (Actor) | Arima Ineko (Actor) | Yamada Isuzu (Actor) | Ozu Yasujiro (Director)
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Product Title: Tokyo Twilight (Hong Kong Version) 東京暮色 (香港版) 东京暮色 (香港版) Tokyo Twilight (Hong Kong Version) Tokyo Twilight (Hong Kong Version)
Artist Name(s): Hara Setsuko (Actor) | Arima Ineko (Actor) | Yamada Isuzu (Actor) 原節子 (Actor) | 有馬稻子 (Actor) | Yamada Isuzu (Actor) 原节子 (Actor) | 有马稻子 (Actor) | Yamada Isuzu (Actor) 原節子 (Actor) | 有馬稲子 (Actor) | 山田五十鈴 (Actor) Hara Setsuko (Actor) | Arima Ineko (Actor) | Yamada Isuzu (Actor)
Director: Ozu Yasujiro 小津安二郎 小津安二郎 小津安二郎 Ozu Yasujiro
Release Date: 2005-05-13
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English, Traditional Chinese
Place of Origin: Japan
Picture Format: NTSC What is it?
Aspect Ratio: 1.33 : 1
Sound Information: Hi-Fi Stereo
Disc Format(s): DVD
Region Code: 3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan) What is it?
Duration: 140 (mins)
Publisher: Panorama (HK)
Package Weight: 100 (g)
Shipment Unit: 1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1004007273

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* Screen Format: 4:3
* Sound Mix: Stereo
* Extra:
- 導演生平及作品年表 Director's Biography and Filmography

導演：小津安二郎
Director: Ozu Yasuijro

　　本片是小津戰後僅有以嚴寒冬季為背景的電影，開首幾個簡單的暮色鏡頭，確立了本片灰暗的主題及調子。銀行家杉山周吉自妻子離他而去後，獨自將兩名女兒撫養成人。已出嫁的孝子跟丈夫鬧離婚，逃到父親家中避難，而未出嫁的明子將做未婚媽媽，卻仍夜夜痴纏，在夜店等待負心漢出現。另外，私奔多年的母親突然回家，為的是介入兩位女兒的生活。及後明子終於借錢打掉了腹中塊肉，卻承受不了殘酷的現實，最後只剩下父親孤單的身影。小津晚期作品少見如斯戲劇化的故事處理，其中主角豁達面對生命的態度，更成為了小津後期作品的出路。

　　Ozu's central themes of family, sadness and transience are revisited again in this buried treasure of minimalist melodrama. The opening scenes of the twilight scenery is marvellously grim, which is totally appropriate for this tale of disintegration of a family. The married elder sister of the family has run away from her alcoholic and abusive husband and return with her child to her parents' home. Her younger sister, who is pregnant and has just been abandoned by her boyfriend, undergoes an abortion before both of them discover a family secret that has devastating result. Hara Setsuko is triumphant in her role as the elder sister who has to go through all the emotions and sufferings of the character.
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Kevin Kennedy
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January 30, 2008
An overlooked Ozu classic Customer Review Rated Bad 10 - 10 out of 10
"Tokyo Twilight" is a brilliantly written, beautifully filmed masterpiece of a family falling apart. The film is elegantly constructed, with the plot points flowing inevitably from what we learn about the characters as the film progresses.

The film introduces us to a single father and his two daughters. The father is an ineffectual middle manager at a bank, the kind of man who ducks out to play pinball at the local pachinko parlor when work gets slow. He is distant in his dealings with other people and unable to assess others properly. He chose his own wife poorly (she left him for another man during the war) and chose the husband for his eldest daughter equally poorly (she has left him due to his drinking and abuse). The youngest daughter lies to her family about her life; she has become pregnant by a young man who wants nothing to do with her.

The tale of this train wreck of a family is presented in hyper-realistic fashion. While it is an unhappy story, it is thoroughly engrossing. We care about these people; we recognize them as people we all know. The family's saving grace is the love the eldest daughter has for her child, an adorable baby girl. It provides the one glimmer of hope for the family's future.

"Tokyo Twilight" is a moving and powerful film and I give it my highest recommendation.
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Martin Perea
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August 25, 2005
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 A masterpiece lost in a sea of greatness... Customer Review Rated Bad 10 - 10 out of 10
I wish I could say this is my favorite Ozu film, but I think "Early Summer", "Tokyo Story", and the silent "Story of Floating Weeds" reign supreme, and most people would agree. This film is not even essential to understanding Ozu's ouvre. It is, rather, part of a ripple that occurred in the mid-50's following his two year break from directing after the success of "Tokyo Story". In 1955 Ozu returned with "Early Spring", a story that brings to the surface the darker undertones and commentary about modernizing Japan that remained subtextual in "Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice" and "Tokyo Story". "Tokyo Twilight" is not even the harshest Ozu film -- that would be the misogynist and over-the-top "Hen in the Wind". Ozu is not concerned with societal changes in this film, he very subtly critiques the Japanese family and its traditions. Chishu Ryu plays a father whose passive-aggressive martyrdom (his wife left him and their daughters during the war) masks an extremely cold and distant nature. Setsuko Hara, as the eldest daughter, uncharacteristically plays an unforgiving and domineering daughter/sister. This was Ozu's last black-and-white film and contains perhaps the most gorgeous cinematography in his body of work. Much of it takes place at night or in the cold. You can feel the literal and emotional coldness in the scenes at the family's home. The DVD captures the photography beautifully. There are many plot elements that make me wonder if Ozu wrote the script after seeing Elia Kazan's "East of Eden", starring James Dean.
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