Yasujirô Ozu’s TOKYO TWILIGHT (1957), starring Setsuko Hara, Ineko Arima and Chishû Ryû, will run at Film Forum in a new 4K restoration for one week!
◎【ABOUT】
An unsung Ozu classic, considered one of his darkest stories and rarely screened since its release over 60 years ago. Newly restored by Shochiku in 4K by Imagica Corporation, Japan.
■ Approx. 141 min. | 4K DCP restoration
■ A Janus Films Release
■ Director: Yasujirô Ozu
■ Screenplay: Yasujirô Ozu & Kogo Noda
■ Cinematography: Yuuharu Atsuta
This run follows SHITAMACHI: TALES OF DOWNTOWN TOKYO, a 3-week, 38-film series spanning nearly eight decades of classic Japanese cinema, including films by Ozu, Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, Naruse, Yamada, Imamura, Kitano, Kore-eda, and many others. The Shitamachi festival is a co-presentation of The Japan Foundation, as part of the citywide Japan 2019 festival.
SHITAMACHI▼
https://www.kimonobijin.jp/en/event/detail.asp?id=826
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◆ PUBLIC SCREENING SCHEDULE ◆
❶ Friday, November 8 & Saturday, November 9
1:20pm / 4:10pm / 7:00pm
❷ Sunday, November 10
1:20pm / 6:20pm
❸ Monday, November 11
12:30pm / 5:10pm / 7:50pm
❹ Tuesday, November 12 – Thursday, November 14
1:20pm / 4:10pm / 7:00pm
Film Forum’s Repertory Calendar is programmed by Bruce Goldstein.
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✤ STORY ✤
Ozu’s intense examination of family conflict follows two daughters, raised only by their father, emotionally struggling as adults with their own romantic relationships. Suddenly, a long-lost acquaintance appears. Could it be their mother?
In an intended change of pace from Ozu, four years after the triumph of Tokyo Story, lone father Ryû’s and his two daughters all live together – scowling Hara has dumped her boozing husband and rebellious Arima is trying to track down her no-good boyfriend. Isuzu Yamada’s mahjong parlor proprietress seems to know a lot about their family and as a school song resounds in the background, a woman carefully wipes away the condensation on the window of her train car… and waits – in one of cinema’s greatest screen train station farewells.
✤ REVIEWS ✤
“A turbulent and grim family melodrama given emotional depth and philosophical heft under Ozu’s direction… Reveals the emotional corrosion that results from maintaining a brave front when faced with problems and shielding children from darker issues—even those regarding their own past.”
– Richard Brody, The New Yorker
“The dialogue and acting are superb… This is the nearest that Ozu ventured towards Western ideas of melodrama, although he is still more restrained than the plot suggests.”
– Donald Richie
“One of Ozu's most profoundly modern works, sounding psychological and sociological depths that Ozu never probed so fearlessly before or since.”
– David Sterritt, Cineaste
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✤ FILM FORUM ✤
Film Forum began in 1970 as an alternative screening space for independent and classic films on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Film Forum has grown into its current four-screen incarnation on West Houston Street, open 365 days a year, with as many as 250,000 annual admissions, over 6,700 members, a $6 million budget, and an endowment of $4.3 million. Located at the convergence of Greenwich Village and SoHo in lower Manhattan, Film Forum is the only autonomous non-profit cinema in New York City whose sole focus is exhibition.
In 1986, Bruce Goldstein began the theater’s popular repertory program, with a focus on classic films and new restorations.
✤ Link ✤
◉ Please see the link below for more details▼
https://filmforum.org/film/yasujiro-ozus-tokyo-twilight
