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...retrospective screens 36 films in total, more than is usually allotted for each of the retrospectives that the Archive organizes on a roughly monthly schedule. However, HFA Film Programmer Ted Barron explains that it was crucially important for the Archive to show as much of Ozu??s work as possible...
Luckily, the Archive was able to get on board with the Japan Society of Boston and the Resichauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard, both of which helped with funding to bring the retrospective in its entirety. The program not only features 36 of Ozu??s works, but several special events throughout the month in which the films are being shown...
...April 2, the HFA screened Tokyo Story, Ozu??s best known film, to open the series. The film was introduced by executives from Shochiku, many of whom shared personal anecdotes and memories of Ozu, who died in 1987. Since this first screening, his works have been screened in roughly chronological order, from his silent films about young college students to his later, more lyrical meditations on family and aging...
...Saturday, April 24, the HFA screened one of Ozu??s silent films, I Was Born, But... (Umarete Wa mita karedo) the way audiences would have seen it in the 1930s: a live benshi performed while the movie played on the screen. During the silent film era in Japan, benshi served as narrators to the on-screen action, playing a key part in popularizing motion pictures throughout the country. Saturday’s performance will come from Midori Sawato, one of the few remaining practicing benshi in the world. The live narration is a performance...
...reception in Japan and reception abroad, but it wouldn’t be cinema history without him in a major way,” says Connor, who currently teaches “Cinema of the Sound Era” in the VES department and requires his students to watch Ozu??s films. “We’re lucky,” he says. “You don’t get this chance very often...