We are delighted that a recorded introduction from writer and Japanese cinema expert Jasper Sharp will play before this screening. Ticketholders are also entitled to a free sample of Japanese sake from the cinema foyer bar.

“This portrait of married middle age is deliciously flavoured with mystery and melancholy” – Guardian ★★★★★

Reportedly one of Ozu’s own personal favourites, this exquisite domestic drama charts a marital crisis, but does so with a wonderfully sprightly comic touch. A couple’s relationship is strained as the snobbish, city-raised wife increasingly bristles at her husband’s provincial ways – but a visit from their headstrong niece offers the chance of reconciliation. One of Ozu’s funniest and most tender films.

Jasper Sharp is a writer, curator, filmmaker and disc producer specialising in Japanese cinema, and the co-founder of the website Midnight Eye (www.midnighteye.com)

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Screening as part of Japan 2021: 100 years of Japanese Cinema, a UK-wide film season supported by National Lottery and BFI Film Audience Network

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THE FLAVOUR OF GREEN TEA OVER RICE + INTRODUCTION + SAKE SAMPLE

We are delighted that a recorded introduction from writer and Japanese cinema expert Jasper Sharp will play before this screening. Ticketholders are also entitled to a free sample of Japanese sake from the cinema foyer bar.

GET THE RIVERSIDE PASS

Screening as part of Japan 2021: 100 years of Japanese Cinema, a UK-wide film season supported by National Lottery and BFI Film Audience Network