LATE AUTUMN / A MOTHER SHOULD BE LOVED - BLU-RAY

The Ozu Collection

LATE AUTUMN + A MOTHER SHOULD BE LOVED (DVD + Blu-ray)
Films by Yasujiro Ozu

When college nostalgia inspires a group of middle-aged businessmen to match-make for the widow played with measured dignity by Setsuko Hara (Tokyo Story) of one of their friends and her daughter, they have no idea of the strife their careless interference will cause. Late Autumn's examination of familial upheaval moves effortlessly from comedy to pathos and is amongst the finest of legendary director Yasujiro Ozu's post-war films.

Included here is the surviving version of Ozu's moving silent drama A Mother Should be Loved. Missing both first and last reels the incomplete film nevertheless achieves a dramatic intensity in its portrayal of Sadao, a young man struggling to deal with a disturbing family secret.

Special Features

• Standard Definition and High Definition presentations of Late Autumn (DVD and Blu-ray)
• Standard Definition presentation of A Mother Should Be Loved (DVD only)
• Optional score for A Mother Should Be Loved by composer Ed Hughes, commissioned exclusively for the BFI
• Fully illustrated booklet with newly commissioned essay by Asian cinema expert Alexander Jacoby
• New and improved English subtitles

Japan | 1960 + 1934 | colour + black and white | Japanese language, English subtitles | 129 minutes + 70 minutes | Original aspect ratio 1.33:1

Disc 1: BD25 | 1080p | 24fps | PCM mono audio (48k/16-bit)
Disc 2: DVD9 | PAL | Dolby Digital mono audio (320kbps)

Region B Blu-ray
Region 2 DVD