ozu's first color film not only brought an insurgence of popping colors and lights into his art direction, but it brought a new wave of thinking as well. ozu's work up until this point had been more focused on traditional japanese family values and the younger generations respon...( read more)
Chieko Naniwa,
Chishu Ryu,
Fujiko Yamamoto,
Ineko Arima,
Keiji Sada
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Two teenaged women make a pact never to fall for their parents' notions of arranged marriages. Subsequently, one of them chooses a husband without her father's consent.
DVD Release Date: June 12, 2007
Stats: 40 reviews
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August 25, 2009
Aug 2009 - As always, this is another amazing view of the urban japan after the war. The conflict of the different generations this time around marriage. It is funny at times and a few of them don't really fit Ozo's style well. This is his first color movie but the colors are so ...( read more)
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March 10, 2008
I found this to be really delightful personally. It was really a joy to see this film in colour, where Ozu, a master, is doing the same topic over again but always with a new dimension. It's like inventing colour, by some obscure mixture of colours and I'll be damned If I see amy...( read more)
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July 8, 2007
One of Ozu's more straight-forward films, the addition of color adds a new sense of style for the director. He is visually unbeatable.
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