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The Ozu Collection
The Student Comedies
(1929-1932)

 

Contents: Days of Youth (1929), I Graduated, But . . . (1929) [fragment], I Flunked, But . . . (1930), The Lady and the Beard (1931) and Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth (1932).

coverBritish Film Institute
2011 DVD edition

The Ozu Collection: The Student Comedies (1929-1932), black & white, 316 minutes total, BBFC Certification PG, including Days of Youth (1929), black & white, 99 minutes, BBFC Certification PG, I Graduated, But . . . (1929) [fragment], black & white, 11 minutes, BBFC Certification PG, I Flunked, But . . . (1930), black & white, 63 minutes, BBFC Certification PG, The Lady and the Beard (1931), black & white, 72 minutes, BBFC Certification PG, and Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth (1932), black & white, 82 minutes, BBFC Certification PG.

British Film Institute, BFIVD927, UPC 5-035673-009277.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 2 PAL DVD disc (two DVDs in the set); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 576 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 320 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; 40-page insert booklet; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; £19.95.
Release date: 20 February 2012.
Country of origin: USA

This PAL DVD collection has been mastered from archival 35mm print elements.

The films are accompanied by music scores composed and performed by Ed Hughes with The Camilleri Trio and Richard Casey.

Supplemental material includes the surviving fragment of I Graduated, But . . . (1929) (11 minutes); the featurette “Ozu: Emotion and Poetry” with Tony Rayns; and a 40-page insert booklet with essays by Tony Rayns and Alexander Jacoby.

This is our recommended home video edition of these films. North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.

 
This Region 2 PAL DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .
Other JAPANESE FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
 
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