Silent Ozu Films (DVD)

Master Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Story) has been revered all over the world for the unique and poetic style of his films. This 2-disc set brings together all of his surviving early student-genre comedies on DVD for the first time. The collection features the following four films: Days of Youth, I Flunked, But..., The Lady and the Beard, and Where now are the Dreams of Youth as well as the surviving fragment of Ozu's early student comedy I Graduated, But...

I Graduated, But... (Yasujiro Ozu, 1929, 11 mins): surviving fragment of Ozu's early student comedy about a recent graduate struggling to find a job
Optional scores for all films by Ed Hughes and featuring The Camilleri Trio and Richard Casey, commissioned exclusively for the BFI
Ozu: Emotion and Poetry (BFI Live, 20 mins): Tony Rayns discusses the art and influence of Ozu's early work
Illustrated booklet with newly commissioned essays by Tony Rayns and Alexander Jacoby