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There Was a Father Directed by Yasujiro Ozu Written by Tadao Ikeda
Yasujiro Ozu
Takao AnaiStarring Mitsuko Mito
Chishu Ryu
Shin SaburiCinematography Yushun Atsua Release date(s) April 1, 1942 Running time 94 minutes Country Japan There Was a Father is a 1942 Japanese film directed by Yasujiro Ozu.
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Production
Yasujiro Ozu wrote the first draft of There Was a Father before he went to China in 1937. On returning for Japan, he re-wrote it again and feeling that "it could still be improved".[1]
Release
There Was a Father was released on April 1, 1942.[2] The only existing prints of the film were cut by Douglas MacArthur's censors for postwar rereleases.[3] There Was a Father placed second in the Kinema Junpo's annual critics' poll of Japan's Best Ten films.[3]
There Was a Father was released on DVD along with Ozu's The Only Son by The Criterion Collection on July 13, 2010.[4]
Notes
- ^ Richie, 1977. p.229
- ^ Richie, 1977. p.228
- ^ a b Rayns, Tony (July 13, 2010). "There Was a Father:Duty Calls". The Criterion Collection. http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1512-there-was-a-father-duty-calls. Retrieved December 19, 2010.
- ^ "The Only Son/There Was a Father [Criterion Collection [2 Discs]"]. Allmovie. http://allmovie.com/dvd/only-sonthere-was-a-father-criterion-collection-2-discs-239899. Retrieved December 19, 2010.
Notes
- Richie, Donald (1977). Ozu. University of California Press. ISBN 0520032772. http://books.google.ca/books?id=8W6mwSIwTEsC. Retrieved December 19, 2010.
Films directed by Yasujirō Ozu Days of Youth (1929) · Walk Cheerfully (1930) · I Flunked, But... (1930) · That Night's Wife (1930) · The Lady and The Beard (1931) · Tokyo Chorus (1931) · I Was Born, But... (1932) · Where Now Are The Dreams Of Youth? (1932) · Woman of Tokyo (1933) · Dragnet Girl (1933) · Passing Fancy (1933) · A Mother Should be Loved (1934) · A Story of Floating Weeds (1934) · An Inn in Tokyo (1935) · The Only Son (1936) · What Did the Lady Forget? (1937) · Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941) · There Was a Father (1942) · The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) · A Hen in the Wind (1948) · Late Spring (1949) · The Munakata Sisters (1950) · Early Summer (1951) · The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (1952) · Tokyo Story (1953) · Early Spring (1956) · Tokyo Twilight (1957) · Equinox Flower (1958) · Good Morning (1959) · Floating Weeds (1959) · Late Autumn (1960) · The End of Summer (1961) · An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
Categories:- 1942 films
- Japanese films
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