Film Highlights
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An Actor’s Revenge
Yukinojô henge / 1963
Kon Ichikawa
113mins / Cert 12A
Kon Ichikawa's wildly melodramatic tale of a kabuki female impersonator who exacts a long-delayed revenge.
Featuring: Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi
Strange, sumptuous and visually stunning, this wildly melodramatic tale of a kabuki female impersonator who exacts a...
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Early Spring
Sôshun / 1956
Yasujirô Ozu
145 mins / Cert U
Shoji (Ryu Ikebe) and his wife Masako (Chikage Awashima), struggle with a family tragedy. When Shoji's interest turns to the office flirt, the couple's fragile peace is threatened.
Featuring: Chikage Awashima, Ryo Ikebe, Teiji Takahashi, Keiko Kishi, Chishu Ryu
Made after Tokyo Story (1953), Early Spring...
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Early Summer
Bakushû / 1951
Yasujirô Ozu
125 mins / Cert U
Ozu's wonderfully poised ensemble work presents the intricacies and contradictions of three generations who have lived through the end of an era and are looking towards the new.
Featuring: Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Chikage Awashima
When family, friends and colleagues pressure Noriko – played with enigmatic...
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The Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice
Ochazuke no aji / 1952
Yasujirô Ozu
116 mins / Cert U
Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu’s beautiful domestic drama is piercing portrait of a marriage coming quietly undone in post-war Tokyo
Featuring: Shin Sabur, Michiyo Kogure, Koji Tsuruta, Chishu Ryu, Chikage Awashima, Keiko Tsushima
Made the year before his career defining...
