Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Days of Youth
(1929)
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This feature comedy, directed by Yasujirô Ozu, stars Ichirô Yûki and Tatsuo Saitô, with Junko Matsui, Chôko Iida, Ichirô Okuni, Takeshi Sakamoto and Chishû Ryû.
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 British Film Institute
2011 DVD edition
The Ozu Collection: The Student Comedies (1924), black & white, 316 minutes total, BBFC Certification PG, including Days of Youth (1929), black & white, 99 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
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This PAL DVD edition has been mastered from archival 35mm print elements.
The film is accompanied by a music score 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 the film. North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.
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This Region 2 PAL DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .
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 Rare Films and More
202? DVD edition
Days of Youth (1929), color-tinted black & white, 98 minutes, not rated.
Rare Films and More, 6790, no UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 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 ? Kbps audio bit rate; Japanese language intertitles, optional English language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.99.
Release date: 202?
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from files lifted from an Internet streaming site or from another company’s home video edition.
The film is likely accompanied by a music score pirated from another company’s home video edition or a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.
Note that this company apparently has a history of pirating other home video editions to produce their products. Be aware that purchasing pirated home video editions does not benefit the original edition producers nor the composers whose music is often pirated as well.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other JAPANESE FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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