'An Autumn Afternoon' Director: Yasujirō Ozu (1962) Contains Blu-ray & DVD | Includes Ozu's 'A Hen in the Wind' (1948) on DVD, fully illustrated booklet with newly commissioned essays by Kyoko Hirano and Jonathan Rosenbaum. Japanese w/ English subtitles

Revisiting the story of his earlier masterpiece 'Late Spring', Yasujiro Ozu's elegiac final film charts the inevitable eclipse of older generations by irreverent youth. A cast of tragi-comic characters weaves seamlessly through this gently satirical portrayal of lifes inevitable, endless cycle.

The director's rarely seen post-war melodrama, 'A Hen in the Wind', is also included here. In a Japan recently devastated by World War II a devoted, near-destitute mother turns to prostitution to pay medical bills when her son falls dangerously ill.