Es war einmal ein Vater

Originaltitel: Chichi ariki

1942
Not Rated
1 Std. 34 Min.

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA schoolteacher struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, having neither money nor future prospects.A schoolteacher struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, having neither money nor future prospects.A schoolteacher struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, having neither money nor future prospects.

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7,5/10

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8/10

Ozu did it again!

Another simple story perfectly made and portrayed by Ozu. This time it is about the relationship between father and son and how they had to separate from each other throughout their lives.

I think this has been the slowest paced film from his earlier films I've seen so far, though I'm not really sure. The camera sometimes shows or focuses on places (for instance the shot in the building where the father works) and prolongs itself into them. Those takes might not add anything to the plot, but they surely give a more vivid feel to the film.

The film is really worth watching for all lovers of Japanese cinema; it is also the one I've liked the most from Ozu's earlier films. Needless to say, and as I've been mentioning in the other reviews, if you're not into Ozu's filmmaking style, then you shouldn't bother checking this out.

fa-oy
30. Okt. 2011
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Contains only 353 shots. The average shot length is 14.8 seconds.

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Following WWII and the restructuring of Japan, the occupying allied forces prohibited a number of existing Japanese works that dealt with patriotism and the war, and "There Was a Father" was one of many works that suffered from censor cuts. A total of seven minutes were removed from the 94 minute film for its reissue in post-war Japan. A number of films were eventually re-released uncut after the occupation, but unfortunately for "There Was a Father", the original negative was lost and so were the original prints. The best existing element was an 87 minute 16mm duplicating negative of the post-war censored version. In the 1990s, the Russian state film archive Gosfilmofond discovered that it had an incomplete 75 minute 35mm print of "There Was a Father" missing two reels, though it was indeed a Japanese theatrical print that included uncensored scenes. Five of the seven censored minutes have been restored for the 2023 4K restoration by Shochiku and the National Film Archive of Japan, with the restored version running 92 minutes.