Bakushû (1951)

Director:

Yasujiro Ozu

Writers:

Kôgo Noda (writer)
Yasujiro Ozu (writer)

Release Date:

2 August 1972 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

In postwar Tokyo, this household is loving and serene: older parents, their 28-year-old daughter Noriko...

Plot Keywords:

Photograph | Minimalism | Disobedience | Daughter | Brothers

Awards:

7 wins

Cast

Setsuko Hara	...	Noriko
Chishu Ryu	...	Koichi
Chikage Awashima	...	Aya Tamura
Kuniko Miyake	...	Fumiko
Ichirô Sugai	...	Shukichi
Chieko Higashiyama	...	Shige
Haruko Sugimura	...	Tami Yabe
Kuniko Ikawa	...	Takako
Kan Nihonyanagi	...	Kenkichi Yabe (as Ryukan Nimoto)
Shûji Sano	...	Sotaro Satake
Toyoko Takahashi
Seiji Miyaguchi
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Kokuten Kodo	...	Old Uncle
Zen Murase	...	Minoru
Isao Shirosawa	...	Isamu

Also Known As:

Early Summer

Runtime:

124 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:G

Filming Locations:

Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

Company:

Shochiku Kinema Kenkyû-jo

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Ikite wa mita keredo - Ozu Yasujirô den (1983)

This is not only a masterpiece, but as well a real miracle of cinema.

Bakushu, even if it is a less known film than Tokyo monogatari or Banshun, is one of his greatest films. In its narrative style what means this films doesn´t tell a story but offers a lot of possible stories, Bakushu is one of the very seldom films which deserves the often misused or used-off definition "Avantgarde". Ozu was one of the greatest poets of cinema, but as well one of the greatest philosophers of that art. That philosophy was never written down, but it can be found in his films. This is not only a masterpiece, but as well a real miracle of cinema. In its construction, its editing, its soundtrack, Bakushu gives an idea of Ozu s incredibly cinematic intelligence. This film is fifty years old, but it still deals with the future of cinema.