Silent Ozu : three family comedies
(DVD)

Title from the box.

Originally released as motion pictures in 1931 and 1933.

Director of photography and editor, Hideo Mohara.

Tatsuo Saito, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Hideo Sugawara, Tomkio Aoki, Takeshi Sakamoto, Nobuko Fushimi, Den Obinata, Choko Iida, Reiko Tanki, Tokihiko Okada, Emiko Yakumo, Hideoko Takamine, Tatsuo Saito.

In the late twenties and early thirties, Yasujiro Ozu was working steadily for Shochiku studios, honing his craft on dozens of silent films in various genres, from romantic melodramas to college comedies to gangster pictures -- and, of course, movies about families. In these three droll domestic films -- Tokyo Chorus, I Was Born, But, and Passing Fancy, presented here with all-new scores by renowned silent-film composer Donald Sosin -- Ozu movingly and humorously depicts middle-class struggles and the resentments between children and parents, establishing the emotional and aesthetic delicacy with which he would transform the landscape of cinema.

DVD format ; Dolby digital mono.

Silent, with optional soundtrack ; Japanese intertitles with optional English subtitles.