#178 - Growing Old With Ozu

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7 • 576 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

We discuss the films of the Japanese master with a focus on FLOATING WEEDS, TOKYO STORY and LATE SPRING. You can buy THE DRAGON LIVES AGAIN Blu-ray, the first release from The Important Cinema Club Bargain Bin Collection, at www.goldninjavideo.com This week on the Patreon episode we watched SOUTHLAND TALES. Become a Patreon subscriber for $5 a month and get an exclusive episode every week! www.patreon.com/theimportantcinemaclub If you have any questions or comments, feel free to drop us a line at importantcinemaclubpodcast@gmail.com

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello, my name is Justin the Cluehr. I'm here today with Will Sloan.
0:07.8	And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. And today, we're talking about the most
0:12.4	famous Japanese film director of all time. Ishiro Honda? No, I'm just kidding. We're talking
0:18.7	about the famous one. Beat Takashi uh what other directors
0:22.5	kinji Fukusaku yeah yeah say sonichiba we know our guys you know Japanese films are kind of
0:28.9	the kryptonite of this podcast if there's any popular kind of output of a country in the world
0:34.9	that we haven't talked about it's Japanese well we have, we have tried it occasionally with mixed results, I think.
0:40.9	I mean, today we're talking about...
0:42.6	Yasujiro Ozu.
0:44.2	And he's the great, like, beside Kurosawa.
0:47.2	We're talking about Japanese cinema, it's usually these two guys.
0:50.0	And is he a filmmaker that you had explored a lot?
0:55.0	No.
0:55.7	And in fact, he's somebody who has sort of only opened up for me recently.
1:00.1	Yeah.
1:00.4	I remember when I was in high school reading, I think Roger Ebert's say something along the lines of,
1:06.1	and sooner or later all cinephiles get to Ozu and they walk with giants or you know some some poetic
1:11.8	statement like that and so I thought I filed that in my head as like oh okay to be a real
1:15.9	cinephile you got to love Ozu and so I think I rented good morning as a teenager and I remember
1:21.5	thinking okay and then in first year film studies class they showed us Tokyo story yes course. What a terrible place to watch that movie. One of the great movies of all time watched it 9 o'clock in the morning with a crowd of your fellow Philistines. Bored. Probably going on their laptops. Yeah. And I don't know if you ever saw a movie at Inestown Hall at UF T, but that was back in the days where if anybody opened a door, it would cast light all over the screen, which happened 50 times in a movie. Yep. Terrible experience. So I was very bored as a teenager watching it. I don't think I ever got into him in my cinephelia, but Ozo was one of those directors that when you read about
2:02.6	him, you feel like you're like, oh, okay,
2:04.5	I get what he does. Because his
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Justin Decloux and Will Sloan, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Justin Decloux and Will Sloan and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.