Word: shochiku
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...retrospective wasn’t organized by the HFA itself. Rather, it’s a traveling series organized by Shochiku Home Video, the original Japanese distributor of Ozu’s films. Shochiku collected newly-struck 35 mm prints of most the films, many of which have been previously available only on 16 mm. Before coming to Harvard, the retrospective visited the Berlin, Hong Kong and New York Film Festivals, and the EAC Film Archive in Berkeley...
...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...
...silent film set at Shochiku that he didn’t want to give up, a silent film cameraman he had a contract with, and didn’t have a definitive vision of how he wanted dialogue to work. He waited until he felt it was right and began using sound in 1936 with The Only Son (Hitori Musuko...