Yasujiro Ozu

Posted on 2007/09/13 23:58:25 (September 2007).

[Tuesday 11th September]
This morning was something of a struggle, following the previous evening's "inappropriate conduct for a school night". I had a very big and hearty lunch though (including some very good cauliflower cheese with some wild mushrooms and roast potatoes on the side), and in the afternoon felt much better indeed.

I was very much keen on having a quiet evening in, although I did have to stay behind a bit in the evening for a team meeting (via video conference) with our guys in the US. There has been a bit of a reshuffle over there, and we seem to have a new manager who talks very fast and rather incessantly and switches from one subject to the next without really giving you a chance to digest it all.

For dinner I knocked up novel sort of a pasta dish - spaghetti in a sun dried tomato sauce, some Quorn pieces, with fresh spinach and mozarella. It was quite nice.

The main event of the evening was watching a rather superb old Japanese film by Yasujiro Ozu - Higanbana (the English title is Equinox Flower). It was apparently his first colour feature. Whilst in Scotland we'd also seen an earlier black and white film of his called Tokyo Boshoku (Tokyo Twilight). I think they were both made in the 1950s, the style of the two films was noticeably very similar, and many of the actors were the same too. It's bizarre for me to feel a since nostalgia at this kind of film, as not only was it before I was born, but in a country I didn't actually grow up in... and yet I found both films very endearing (despite the rather unhappy ending in Twilight).

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