Keiji Sada
1) Good morning
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
日本語
Description
Two young boys take a vow of silence after their parents refuse to buy them a television set for their suburban Tokyo home.
Series
Criterion collection volume 480
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
日本語
Description
Tells of the journey of the well-intentioned yet naive Kaji from labor camp supervisor to Imperial Army soldier to Soviet POW. Constantly trying to rise above a corrupt system, Kaji time and again finds his morals an impediment rather than an advantage.
Series
Criterion collection volume 84
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
日本語
Description
Satiric comedy in which two young brothers refuse to talk until their parents agree to buy them a television set. Set in a 1950s residential suburb of Tokyo.
Series
Criterion collection volume 446
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
日本語
Description
After living alone with his daughter for years, a widower must learn how to let her go, letting her be free to move on with her life, by arranging a marriage for her.
Series
Criterion collection volume 446
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
日本語
Description
A gently heartbreaking story about a man's dignifed resignation to life's shifting currents and society's modernization. Though widower Shuhei has been living comfortably for years with his grown daughter, a series of events leads him to accept and encourage her marriage and departure from their home.
Series
Criterion collection volume 84
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
日本語
Description
"A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu's perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning Technicolor...
7) Higanbana
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
日本語
Description
In Ozu's first color film, a stubborn businessman, who disapproves of his daughter's fiance, must learn to embrace modern romance.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
日本語
Description
Thick-walled room. Among the first Japanese films to deal directly with the scars of World War II, this drama about a group of rank-and file Japanese soldiers jailed for crimes against humanity was adapted by Abe Kōbō from the diaries of real prisoners.
I will buy you. Masaki Kobayashi's pitiless take on Japan's professional baseball industry is unlike any other sports film ever made. A condemnation of the inhumanity bred by a mercenary, bribery-fueled...