LATE SPRING - BLU-RAY

The Ozu Collection

LATE SPRING + THE ONLY SON (DVD + Blu-ray)
Films by Yasujiro Ozu

Yasujiro Ozu's hugely influential award-winning masterpiece, Late Spring, is a tender meditation on family politics, sacrifice and the status quo. Noriko (Setsuko Hara) and her father, Professor Somiya (Chishu Ryu), live together in perfect harmony but old certainties are put at risk when an interfering aunt raises the question of marriage. Introducing Ozu's popular Noriko character, Late Spring poignantly examines the gradual compromise between modernity and tradition.

Also included here is Ozu's first sound film, The Only Son - a powerful tale of sacrifice and hope set against the backdrop of depression-era Japan. Otsune Nonomiya (Choko Lida) works long hours in a silk factory to fund her son Ryosuke's college education in Tokyo. But when she visits him to see his new life she finds some very startling surprises.

Special Features

• Standard Definition and High Definition presentations of Late Spring and The Only Son (DVD and Blu-ray)
• Fully illustrated booklet with newly commissioned essay
• New and improved English subtitles

Japan | 1949 + 1936 | black and white | Japanese language, English subtitles | 108 minutes + 83 minutes | Original aspect ratio 1.33:1

Disc 1: BD50 | 1080p | 24fps | PCM mono audio (48k/16-bit)
Disc 2: DVD9 | PAL | PCM mono audio (48k/16-bit) + Dolby Digital mono audio (320kbps)

Region B Blu-ray | Region 2 DVD

Review

'The greatest of all Japanese film makers' --Jana Bokova