Screening of the Japanese film, “An Autumn Afternoon” at Cinephile Film Club on 19th January 2022, at Audi I, Maquinez palace, ESG at 6:30 p.m. Details given below.
Film: An Autumn Afternoon (1962, color, Japanese with English subtitles)
Directed by: Yasujirō Ozu
Duration: 1 hr 50 mins
“To love movies without loving Ozu is an impossibility”, said the famed critic Roger Ebert, and no one could have put it better.
Regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, An Autumn Afternoon was one of the many masterpieces by the legendary Japanese filmmaker, Yasujirō Ozu. It was also his last film.
The story is about an elderly gent (Ozu regular, Chishū Ryū) who is the patriarch of the Hirayama family. At one point, he realizes that he has a duty to get his daughter Michiko (Shima Iwashita) married. She is reluctant to do so because then she would have to leave her father. The hallmark of Ozu’s films was the simplicity of his storytelling and yet it was so very profound – few expressed the depth of human emotions like Ozu did.
