Silent Ozu Films: The Student Comedies (The Ozu Collection)

Master Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Story) has been revered all over the world for the unique and poetic style of his films. This 2-disc set brings together all of his surviving early student-genre comedies on DVD for the first time.
The collection features the following four films: Days of Youth, I Flunked, But…, The Lady and the Beard, and Where now are the Dreams of Youth  as well as the surviving fragment of Ozu’s early student comedy I Graduated, But…

Extra features:

• I Graduated, But… (Yasujiro Ozu, 1929, 11 mins): surviving fragment of Ozu’s early student comedy about a recent graduate struggling to find a job

• Optional scores for all films by Ed Hughes and featuring The Camilleri Trio and Richard Casey, commissioned exclusively for the BFI

• Ozu: Emotion and Poetry (BFI Live, 20 mins): Tony Rayns discusses the art and influence of Ozu’s early work

• Illustrated booklet with newly commissioned essays by Tony Rayns and Alexander Jacoby