(Otona no miru Ehon - wa mita keredo Umarete)
film Yasujiro Ozu - Japan - 1932
(black and white, silent)
Scenario Akira Fushimi Geibei Ibushiya (adaptation) on an idea by Yasujiro Ozu
Cinematography and editing: Hideo Shigehara
Production: Shochiku Films
Cast: Tatsuo Saito (Chichi, Yoshi's father), Mitsuko Yoshikawa (Haha, the mother ), Tomio Aoki (Keiji, or Tokkan-Kozou), Hideo Sugawara (Chounan (eldest son)), Takeshi Sakamoto (Juuyaku, director), Teruyo Hayami (Fujin) Seiichi Kato (Kodomo), Shoichi Kofujita (Kozou, the driver), Seiji Nishimura (Sensei, the teacher), Zentaro Iijima, Shotaro Fujimatsu, Masao Hayama
Mystery Ozu (Revisited) by Eugene Green
Kids Tokyo, one of the first feature films by Yasujiro Ozu, spring in theaters in France. A funny and tender film that bears the seeds of future work of renowned Japanese fleet where an unfathomable mystery.
The opening scene of Kids Tokyo (1932), probably the silent film's most famous Yasujiro Ozu, is revealing. A couple and their two children are preparing to move into the suburbs of Tokyo when suddenly their car is stuck. The vagaries of life. Certainly. But this scene also symbolizes that the filmmaker will continually develop in the rest of his work. Show heroes, or more precisely, anti-hero, mired in the routine of daily life, drawing on Shomin-geki, stories about the simple life of the Japanese of his time. He portrays an almost minimalist in an extremely sophisticated and with a minimum of aircraft movements. He thus achieved what analysts consider his work as "mystery" Ozu. This incredible ability to break through the surface of things to go to an underground world, or rather air or full of Taoist mysticism. These are the "floating world" of Ozu, which captures the smallest oscillations of human feelings as the flat stone, which was launched on the water, drawing fine lines, wide at first, then imperceptible, almost invisible. But indeed present. Therefore
see or review Kids Tokyo with this in mind. An early work inspired the film that Ozu American burlesque was a fervent admirer - situations funny, faces, fights, accumulation and repetition of gags ... - Desiterata influenced by the film studios in Tokyo, but already with a language and a unique sensibility that makes the story of these two kids in revolt against their father, a celebratory movie, a comic gem with finesse. The two boys of 8 and 10 years, whipping a band leader, decided to play truant. Roundly scolded by their father, they realize that one, single employee is obliged to submit to the authority of his boss up to ridicule in front of him. Instantly, the children start a hunger strike. For if becoming someone important in society, as the father preaches, amounts to kowtowing to his boss, so why bother ...
Kids Tokyo, which will be a remake of Ozu Hello title in 1959, spring in its silent version without music. Originally, like all Japanese silent films, the film was accompanied by a benshi, barker whose popularity exceeded that of film actors. Ozu, including 34 of 50 feature films are dumb (unfortunately, most are now invisible), is cited as a model by many filmmakers, Wim Wenders and Aki Kaurismaki in mind. But the director, who died in 1963 at the age of 63 years, has actually been recognized in France until the late 1970s, after having long been overshadowed by Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and Mikio Naruse . And yet, was it primarily for movies of the second part of his career, made after the Second World War, long after the advent of sound and color ( Late Spring (1949), The Trip to Tokyo (1953), The Taste of Sake (1962)).
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