Time: 18.30 – Sunday October 4, 2015
Cinema 4
108 min
Japan 1949
Japanese with English subtitles
Introduction by Dick Stegewerns
To persuade his live-in daughter to lead her own life, a father pretends he will remarry. Bashun marks the beginning of Ozu’s post-war film style, which offers profound character studies of the protagonists and an exploration of the tender-sad relationship between parents and children. The loving Noriko lives with her father, a gentle, somewhat absent-minded professor, and her tiresome aunt, who thinks it is high time her niece got married. Noriko’s father feels it is good to put some distance between himself and his daughter by taking a new and younger wife. But Noriko would like nothing better than stay as she is. Nobody is right or wrong on the subdued battlefield of family life. There are no clearly marked beginnings or endings in Ozu’s work, as in the cycle of seasons after which some of his films are named.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu – Screenplay:, Kazuo Hirotsu, Kogo Noda, Yasujirô Ozu, based on the novel by Kazuo Hirotsu – Yûharu Atsuta Editor: Yoshiyasu Hamamura – Music: Senji Itô Art Direction: Tatsuo Hamada – Set Decoration: Mototsugu Komaki – Costume Design: Bunjiro Suzuki – Producer: Takeshi Yamamoto