The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice [Criterion Collection]

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice [Criterion Collection]

Director: Yasujiro Ozu Cast: Chikage Awashima
Chikage Awashima
, Chishu Ryu
Chishu Ryu
, Shin Saburi
Shin Saburi
, Koji Tsuruta
Koji Tsuruta
Yasujiro Ozu
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice [Criterion Collection]

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice [Criterion Collection]

Director: Yasujiro Ozu Cast: Chikage Awashima
Chikage Awashima
, Chishu Ryu
Chishu Ryu
, Shin Saburi
Shin Saburi
, Koji Tsuruta
Koji Tsuruta
Yasujiro Ozu

DVD (Black & White)

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Overview

One of Ozu's better known but not less successful films, The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice tells the story of a crisis in the marriage of a middle-aged, middle-class couple. The wife aspires to be socially upwardly mobile and thinks her husband, an even-tempered businessman, lacks drive. Feeling constrained by the husband's equanimity on one hand and by the wife's ambitions on the other, they drift apart. With no children to reaffirm their bond, their lives fall into a meaningless routine. This middle-class tragedy is interrupted when the couple's favorite niece arrives for a visit. Inspired by her youthful optimism, the couple attempts to mend their broken relationship. Their success is symbolized, at the film's end, by the sharing of ochazuke ("green rice over tea").

Product Details

Release Date: 08/27/2019
UPC: 0715515233910
Original Release: 1952
Rating: NR
Source: Criterion Collection
Region Code: 1
Presentation: [B&W]
Sound: [Dolby Digital Mono]
Language: English
Time: 1:56:00
Sales rank: 22,431

Special Features

What Did the Lady Forget?, a 1937 feature by Yasujiro Ozu New video essay by film scholar David Bordwell Ozu & Noda, a new documentary by Daniel Raim on Ozu's longtime collaboration with screenwriter Kogo Noda

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Chikage Awashima Aya Amamiya
Chishu Ryu Sadao Hirayama
Shin Saburi Mokichi Satake
Koji Tsuruta Noboru
Yuko Mochizuki Actor
Michiyo Kogure Taeko Satake
Keiko Tsushima Actor
Kuniko Miyake Actor
Ichiro Saito Composer

Technical Credits
Kogo Noda Screenwriter
Yasujiro Ozu Director,Screenwriter

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (Criterion Collection)
1. Chapter 1 [12:32]
2. Chapter 2 [5:55]
3. Chapter 3 [7:36]
4. Chapter 4 [3:54]
5. Chapter 5 [6:08]
6. Chapter 6 [9:53]
7. Chapter 7 [8:54]
8. Chapter 8 [8:37]
9. Chapter 9 [9:01]
10. Chapter 10 [10:30]
11. Chapter 11 [:45]
12. Chapter 12 [4:44]
13. Chapter 13 [2:54]
14. Chapter 14 [5:31]
15. Chapter 15 [13:03]
16. Chapter 16 [6:07]
Disc #2 -- What Did the Lady Forget? (Criterion Collection)
1. Chapter 1 [9:00]
2. Chapter 2 [2:52]
3. Chapter 3 [3:49]
4. Chapter 4 [6:20]
5. Chapter 5 [8:49]
6. Chapter 6 [10:00]
7. Chapter 7 [8:20]
8. Chapter 8 [7:09]
9. Chapter 9 [6:16]
10. Chapter 10 [5:07]
11. Chapter 11 [3:35]
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