Electric Shadow

Noriko (#164)

This still frame comes from the breathtaking new Criterion Blu-ray of Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story, restored and remastered from a 4K film transfer. It is a noticeable upgrade as compared to the BFI's Region B Blu-ray, from which I've previously featured stills.

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I finally saw a 35mm print of Tokyo Story three months ago, thanks to an Austin Film Society screening. I suggested a pair of screenings that I realize I've just missed, of A Story of Floating Weeds and its color sound remake, Floating Weeds. I hope people enjoyed them. I'm actually quite sad to have missed them, but there are worse things to have happen in life, you know?