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1.Floating Weeds starring: Ganjiro Nakamura, Machiko Kyô, Haruko Sugimura, Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi directed by: Yasujiro Ozu June 06, 2000
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I love the visual of this movie. It's perfect. Everybody see it. I would give this movie as a gift for people who like colors.

2.No Regrets for Our Youth starring: Setsuko Hara, Susumu Fujita, Denjirô Ôkôchi, Haruko Sugimura, Eiko Miyoshi directed by: Akira Kurosawa June 20, 2000
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"Postwar Kurosawa deserves a lot of praise for making early films by the great Japanes director available at reasonable prices. I thought the quality of the DVD's was good but then I've thought that about a lot of DVDs of older films that other reviewers have complained about. The set consists of 5 films. In my opinion, the two best movies in the set are "No Regrets for our Youth" and "One Wonderful Sunday". These are near the quality, overall, of later works of the Master. "No Regrets..." tells of the idealism of young Japanese at the time the War was becoming reality. One person emerges from all the idealism and bravado as someone who walked the walk and talked the talk. In viewing this person's metamorphisis from observer to participant we see the early ability of the young ... Read More

3.Tokyo Story starring: Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Sô Yamamura, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura directed by: Yasujiro Ozu March 20, 2001
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If you've read anything of the description, you'll know the story doesn't appear to have any fascinating elements to it for someone who is perhaps 25 years old or younger. But if you have experienced death of a parent, or the awkwardness of dealing with grown siblings, or even dealing with embarrassing parental behavior---there is something here for you. In addition, if you are at all a History Channel buff, there is the added attraction of seeing life in postwar Japan, and what the middle-class there were doing while we were having our baby boom and moving to our "little boxes" in the suburbs. I like to look at the clothes and also see a society in a major transition while still having the influence (still felt) from American occupation. Plus if you are interested in religious and social practices, ... Read More

4.Early Summer starring: Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Chikage Awashima, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirô Sugai directed by: Yasujiro Ozu June 13, 2000
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Early Summer (Bakushû) is the middle entry in what has been called director Yasujiro Ozu's Noriko Trilogy (bookended by Late Spring and Tokyo Story). All three films feature women named Noriko (all played by Setsuko Hara), who are without husbands, and embroiled in family dramas. The names of many of the other major characters recur in the trilogy, as well, which gives the films a feeling of almost being alternate world versions of each other- ala the way comic books have `canonical' superhero tales, and those set in alternate universes. Released in 1951, the 124 minute black and white film was written by Ozu and his co-writer Kôgo Noda, and is every bit as great a film as its two more celebrated companion pieces. The film featured many of Ozu's actors from the two other films, and in many ways is ... Read More

5.Late Chrysanthemums starring: Haruko Sugimura, Ken Uehara, Sadako Sawamura, Chikako Hosokawa, Yûko Mochizuki directed by: Mikio Naruse March 14, 2000
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Unfortunately early master of the Japanese cinema Mikio Naruse is little-known today even in his own home country. Even Mizoguchi and Ozu are more well known and certainly more respected. However, Naruse is ever bit on par with these directors, carving a very distinct niche and producing a beautiful body of work from the 1930s through to the 1960s. "Late Chrysanthemums" is one of two Naruse films currently in print on VHS - though likely not for long - and while it's the lesser of the two ("When a Woman Ascends the Stairs" is a brilliant masterpiece) it is nevertheless a great film. The story follows three aging former geishas - two of which have fallen on hard times and the third who's become a successful moneylender. The former two are sullen and complain constantly about how their old friend has become ... Read More

6.Good Morning (AKA Ohayo) starring: Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Chishu Ryu, Kuniko Miyake, Haruko Sugimura directed by: Yasujiro Ozu June 06, 2000
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Of the Big Three Japanese film directors from last century, who were known in the West, Kenji Mizoguchi, Akira Kurosawa, and Yasujiro Ozu, Ozu is by far the least well known, and this is because he was probably the least technically innovative of the troika. But, that is not the same as saying he was the least accomplished. In fact, his 1959 social comedy of manners, Good Morning (Ohayo), set in a modern Tokyo suburban subdivision, is in many ways far more relevant than the more famed period pieces the other directors made, for it has a definite Western sensibility. Ozu seemed to be obsessed with documenting history, but history as it was lived, not re-imagined. He was acutely aware of his role as a social documentarian, if in a fictive sense. It was also his third color film, and on the surface it would seem ... Read More

7.No Regrets for Our Youth starring: Setsuko Hara, Susumu Fujita, Denjirô Ôkôchi, Haruko Sugimura, Eiko Miyoshi directed by: Akira Kurosawa July 08, 1992
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"Postwar Kurosawa deserves a lot of praise for making early films by the great Japanes director available at reasonable prices. I thought the quality of the DVD's was good but then I've thought that about a lot of DVDs of older films that other reviewers have complained about. The set consists of 5 films. In my opinion, the two best movies in the set are "No Regrets for our Youth" and "One Wonderful Sunday". These are near the quality, overall, of later works of the Master. "No Regrets..." tells of the idealism of young Japanese at the time the War was becoming reality. One person emerges from all the idealism and bravado as someone who walked the walk and talked the talk. In viewing this person's metamorphisis from observer to participant we see the early ability of the young director in using film ... Read More

8.Late Spring starring: Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Haruko Sugimura, Hohi Aoki directed by: Yasujiro Ozu November 11, 1998
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If one were to think of an equivalent to the film style of director Yasujiro Ozu it would have to be long novels suffused with detail, but never superfluous detail. Books such as Herman Melville's Moby-Dick- with its descriptions of the whaling industry and vessels, John Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath- with its detailed rendering of the lives of migrant workers, and especially Betty Smith's A Tree Grows In Brooklyn- with its child-like view of a world that overwhelms fresh senses, come to mind, even though the film checks in at a mid-length range of an hour and forty-eight minutes. Ozu's cinema is utterly shorn of melodrama, for all that occurs within its frames advances some aspect of narrative, character development, or social commentary. Yet, some of the most affecting scenes in the whole of his 1949 film, Late Spring (Banshun), ... Read More

9.Princess Yang Kwei Fei starring: Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Sô Yamamura, Eitarô Shindô, Eitarô Ozawa directed by: Kenji Mizoguchi January 01, 1998
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I saw this film in New York -- I think at the New Yorker theater -- over 30 years ago. I saw it once again at some later date. It is a wonderfully touching, sad and all too human story with a Shakesperean quality about it, and the colors and fimography are dazzling. I am not a professional film critic, and I know Mizoguchi is highly ranked among Japanese directors, but I feel he should be even more highly ranked. How anyone could consider this film as less than an absolute materpiece is beyond me.

10.Kwaidan starring: Rentaro Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiko Kishi directed by: Masaki Kobayashi June 13, 2000
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I endorse most every review before this one. Read them. Or just get the movie. The more I watched, the more i liked. Hoichi the Earless was my favorite... the biwa chants were ... quite ... tearfully good... (musicians take note, especially western guitarists and vocalists on the wildness and pure differentness) I could spend many sentences advocating, but suffice it to say, if you like artful cinema and/or theater this movie is worth watching. Even if you end up not liking it, it's worth it to see. But every minute I watched, I liked it more and more.... At least rent it. Any "art" house type movie watcher will appreciate it. Cannes Jury award winner and Oscar nominated for best foreign film (you aren't the only ones who liked it!!)

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