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The great Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu (
Late Spring) is best known for the stately, meditative domestic dramas he made after World War II. But during his first decade at Shochiku studios, where he dabbled in many genres, he put out a trio of precisely rendered, magnificently shot and edited silent crime films about the hopes, dreams, and loves of small-time crooks. Heavily influenced in narrative and visual style by the American films that Ozu adored, these movies are revelatory early examples of his cinematic genius, accompanied here by new piano scores by Neil Brand.
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WALK CHEERFULLY
In Yasujiro Ozus
Walk Cheerfully, which gracefully combines elements of the relationship drama and the gangster story, small-time hood Kenji, a.k.a. Ken the Knife, wants to go straight for good girl Yasue but finds that starting over isnt as simple as it sounds. This was the Japanese masters first true homage to American crime movies, and it is a fleetly told, expressively shot work of humor and emotional depth.
THAT NIGHTS WIFE
In noirish darkness, a man commits a shocking robbery. But, as we soon learn, this seeming criminal mastermind is actually a sensitive everyman driven to commit desperate deeds for the sake of his family. Unfolding over the course of one night, Yasujiro Ozus
That Nights Wife combines suspense with the emotional domestic drama one associates with the filmmakers later masterpieces and employs beautifully evocative camera work.
DRAGNET GIRL
This formally accomplished and psychologically complex gangster tale pivots on the growing attraction between Joji, a hardened career criminal, and Kazuko, the sweet-natured older sister of a newly initiated young hoodluma relationship that provokes the jealousy of Jojis otherwise patient moll, Tokiko (
The Life of Oharus Kinuyo Tanaka). With effortlessly cool performances and visual inventiveness,
Dragnet Girl is a bravura work from Yasujiro Ozu.
Eclipse series 42 Silent Ozu Three Crime Dramas
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