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New video essay by film scholar David Bordwell A widow sends her only son away to receive a better education.

So says Mokichi (Shin Saburi) to his wife Taeko (Michiyo Kogure) towards the end of The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice—and that line right there not only summarizes Yasujiro Ozu's view of marriage as contingent on compromise and empathy, but also succinctly sums up the great Japanese filmmaker's complex, unsparing yet wise humanist perspective … A childless middle-aged couple faces a marital crisis of sorts. (the maid usually takes care of everything, reinforcing the social ranks at play). It's a head-on collision of lifestyle between a provincial gentleman, Mokichi and his sophisticated wife, Taeko who find themselves in an empty & child-less marriage.



There's a sense that, even in levels of extreme tragedy or periods of supreme happiness that things aren't always going to be great, but that's ok. We're all part of this spinning wheel of life, and we're all trying to do our best as we get along.

One of the ineffably lovely domestic sagas made by Yasujiro Ozu at the height of his mastery,

Until the End of the World (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] please let me know if you encounter any dead links or deleted videos.This list collects every film from the Starting List that became They Shoot Pictures Don't They's 1000 Greatest Films.


I will be giving my basic thoughts on the film compared to other Ozu films and be giving a brief summary and slight differences from other Ozu films.Ozu I believe is a master of the family drama, from his masterpiece on old age in Japanese culture in “Tokyo Story” (1953) to his later masterpiece that was a comical look into kids mindsets in “Good Morning” (1959).











The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] This film follows a childless married couple as they navigate changing traditions, conceptions of marriage, and love.

Riding in the back of a car are two women, one is dressed in modern westernised clothes, while the other is dressed in a kimono.



And the darkness here is a bitter kind, more potent and enduring than what Ozu would commonly portray, which renders the impossible tenderness that in characteristic turn marks the ends of his films, arriving here too, all the more miraculous, gracious, apart yet nearing along life’s horizon. There was some excellent camera work throughout the Satake house, and honestly Fumi, their maid, might be my favorite role.
They’ve been severely unhappy and uncommunicative with each other up to this point, owing much of their frustration to their arranged marriage and differing class values. Ozu in “The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice” takes a look at the marriage aspect of Japanese… Review by Nafees Ahmed ★★★★½ Set in post-War Japan, Yasujiro Ozu's lesser-known masterwork 'The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice' is a sharp-witted portrait of an arranged marriage that's quietly going to … There are no easy answer for anyone's predicaments.

This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. But here it's dealt with in a very complex fashion. Bio: I wanna be Christopher Doyle and Harun Farocki at the same time Even better a marriage-related effort than Early Spring!