Yasujiro Ozu - Todake no kyodai (1941)

Ozu enters William Wyler terrain with a somber upscale family drama about a mother and daughter who are shuttled in unwelcome fashion from one family member's home to another following the death of the family patriarch. The thematic elements of displacement within a family unit anticipate TOKYO STORY - there's even a bedtime scene between the mother and daughter that echoes one in the later film. There's a startling lack of music also, esp. during Ozu's normally music-filled transitional shots, that contribute to an overall sense of tense unease that touches on what might have been the general wartime state of mind among Japanese at that time. The war makes a subtle appearance in the form of the youngest son who offers to take the unwanted family members with him to settle in China - a moment which might be aligned with Imperialist propaganda, though in a fascinating way: the Chinese "frontier" seems presented as a place where Japanese society can escape its social hypocrisies and begin anew. General Complete name : Todake no kyodai.avi Format : AVI Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave Format/Family : RIFF File size : 700 MiB PlayTime : 1h 44mn Bit rate : 926 Kbps StreamSize : 12.7 MiB Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.1 (build 2439/release) Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2439/release Video #0 Codec : XviD Codec/Family : MPEG-4 Codec/Info : XviD project Codec profile : Simple Profile/Level 3 Codec settings/PacketBitStream : No Codec settings/BVOP : No Codec settings/QPel : No Codec settings/GMC : 0 Codec settings/Matrix : Default PlayTime : 1h 44mn Bit rate : 847 Kbps Width : 512 pixels Height : 384 pixels Display Aspect ratio : 4/3 Frame rate : 23.976 fps Resolution : 8 bits Chroma : 4:2:0 Interlacement : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.178 StreamSize : 634 MiB Audio #1 Codec : MPEG-1 Audio layer 3 PlayTime : 1h 44mn Bit rate : 71 Kbps Bit rate mode : VBR Channel(s) : 1 channel Sampling rate : 48 KHz Resolution : 16 bits StreamSize : 52.8 MiB Writing library : LAME3.93 Encoding settings : VBR (rh) IMDB: tt0034298 Japanese audio, English, Spanish and Portuguese subtitles.

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