A Straightforward Boy: A Meditation on the Unsaid
The entry from Japan in this year’s International Silent Film Festival Manila (ISFFM)–influential director Yasujiro Ozu’s A Straightforward Boy–has been emerging for the last couple of decades in fragments. Previously believed to be lost, the film was discovered in 1988 and again in 2016–the latter, being the most complete version to date, and which screened […]