The journey through the filmography of the Japanese master continues with titles from his first stage, when he was able to film four or five in the same year (some of them as interesting as I have been born, but… i A hostel in Tokyo, two of his best silent films). with Where are the dreams of youth? returns to the student comedy he had explored in Salad days i I have suspended but… A woman outside the law, on your part, is the last Western-influenced gangster film he directed. It combines the atmosphere of Walk with optimism and the conflict d’A woman from Tokyo. Story of a wandering grass it will be screened in a double program preceded by the short documentary The lion dance, with whom she shares being set in the world of theatre. From the first, Ozu would make a remake in 1959. It is one of his films with more exteriors, unusual thing in his cinema, perhaps because of his desire to control even the smallest detail of the framing. The economic hardships experienced by the protagonists are very present in this period, very marked by the consequences of the crisis of the years 30. Ozu also began to frequent in these years what would become for him - an eternal bachelor who always lived with his mother - in his favorite subject: the not always easy relationships between parents and children.
08.10.2024 – 08.02.2025
08.11.24 FRIDAY / 20.15 h
14.11.24 THURSDAY / 18.00 h
I have been born, but…
Otona no miru ehon / Umareta wa mita keredo
YASUJIRO OZU. The Japan. 1932. Mute sound signs cast. B/N. 90′. DCP.
Int. Tatsuo Saito, Hideo Sugawara, Tokkan Kozo, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Takeshi Sakamoto, Seiji Nishimura.
The Yoshii family moves to a suburb of Tokyo so that the father can be closer to his office. The two children have to adapt to the new school, but they collide with the hostility of a group of girls, among whom is the son of his father's chief. Besides, when they discover the servile attitude that the father maintains towards his boss, the brothers suffer a humiliating disappointment.
