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Il était un père

Titre original : Chichi ariki
  • 1942
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  • 1h 34min
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Il était un père (1942)
Drama

Shuhei Horikawa, modeste professeur, peine à élever seul son fils Ryohei, sans argent et sans perspectives d'avenir.Shuhei Horikawa, modeste professeur, peine à élever seul son fils Ryohei, sans argent et sans perspectives d'avenir.Shuhei Horikawa, modeste professeur, peine à élever seul son fils Ryohei, sans argent et sans perspectives d'avenir.

  • Réalisation
    • Yasujirô Ozu
  • Scénario
    • Tadao Ikeda
    • Takao Yanai
    • Yasujirô Ozu
  • Casting principal
    • Chishû Ryû
    • Shûji Sano
    • Haruhiko Tsuda
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    • Réalisation
      • Yasujirô Ozu
    • Scénario
      • Tadao Ikeda
      • Takao Yanai
      • Yasujirô Ozu
    • Casting principal
      • Chishû Ryû
      • Shûji Sano
      • Haruhiko Tsuda
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    • 22avis des critiques
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    • Récompenses
      • 1 nomination au total

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    Chishû Ryû
    Chishû Ryû
    • Shuhei Horikawa
    Shûji Sano
    Shûji Sano
    • Ryohei Horikawa
    Haruhiko Tsuda
    Haruhiko Tsuda
    • Ryohei as a child
    Shin Saburi
    Shin Saburi
    • Yasutaro Kurokawa
    Takeshi Sakamoto
    Takeshi Sakamoto
    • Makoto Hirata
    Mitsuko Mito
    Mitsuko Mito
    • Fumiko Hirata
    Masayoshi Ôtsuka
    • Seiichi Hirata
    Shin'ichi Himori
    Shin'ichi Himori
    • Minoru Uchida
    Seiji Nishimura
    • Priest
    Reikô Tani
    Kanji Kawahara
    • Teacher of junior high school
    Yûsuke Kurata
    • Teacher of junior high school
    Ken'ichi Miyajima
    Chiyoko Fumiya
    Shin'yô Nara
    Kenji Ôyama
    Kôji Mitsui
    Kôji Mitsui
    Teruo Kisaragi
    • Réalisation
      • Yasujirô Ozu
    • Scénario
      • Tadao Ikeda
      • Takao Yanai
      • Yasujirô Ozu
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    alsolikelife

    subversive sadness cracks through wartime propaganda

    Another sober wartime drama, this time a sort of reworking of THE ONLY SON as a widower schoolteacher decides to send his boy to a boarding school to give him the best education possible and seek a higher paying position to afford tuition. The film takes a sudden leap forward in time as the grown son desires to take care of his aging father, but the father forbids the son to compromise his own career. The war is barely mentioned but the film can easily be read as a propagandistic statement about self-sacrifice and devotion to duty, even at the cost of family unity. However, the pensive, tentative mood Ozu captures at the end, embodied in the son's distant, troubled look as he thinks about his father, hints at Ozu's own reservations with the moral message being issued. The scenes of father and son together in both halves of the story have a gentle perfection that gives the film all the beauty it requires, thanks to great performances by Shuji Sano as the grown son and Chishyu Ryo as the father. Amazingly, Ryu was only 38 when he gave this totally believable performance as an aging patriarch -- in fact he barely looks any different than he does in AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON twenty years later!
    10lqualls-dchin

    Unusual Ozu film

    Most of the films of Yasujiro Ozu take a very restricted time period: a few days at the most. "There Was a Father" is unusual in that the time span is actually quite long: it stretches over a number of years (this is also the case with "The Only Son"), as it chronicles the relationship of a widower with his son. The father, a schoolteacher (played by Chishu Ryu), struggles to make sure that his son has advantages that he never had; in this case, the son is appreciative of all that the father has done, and the relationship is one of the most heartwarming of all familial relationships in Ozu's work. "There Was a Father" represents one of the most beautiful depictions of a good parent in all of world cinema.
    8zetes

    Sometimes a little clunky (probably because it was edited post-war), but very good nonetheless

    Lesser, but, of course, still fine Ozu. It might come off as better if it had not been edited by American censors after the war, or if the existing print were a little less damaged (it's easily the worst print I've ever seen Criterion put on DVD, and they apologize profusely in the booklet for it; of course, it's of the best quality that is available). Chishu Ryu, in his first starring role, plays the titular father. The film opens with him quitting his job as a teacher after a student under his supervision has died. A widower, he moves away from the city with his young son in tow. After he finds a good school, he abandons his son to move back to Tokyo, where he can find better work. The meat of the film is the torn relationship. The son isn't bitter, exactly - more hurt that his father is far away. When he grows up, he wants to quit his job as a teacher to move to Tokyo to be with his father, but his father refuses the idea. Every person must do their job the best they can. While the message of every citizen doing their duty is a part of the film's wartime propaganda, it doesn't really come off as such. It feels more like Ryu is always punishing himself for his own career failures, or maybe that he fears that his son will be a failure like himself if he quits his job. Yet Ryu's character never comes off as cold - he loves his son, and his son loves the heck out of him. It's as if the forced separation is pathological. All the scenes between the father and son are golden. I did think that whenever the film strayed from them it wasn't as strong, and the pacing feels a little weird at times (almost certainly from the editing the film suffered later on). The final moments are killer.
    chaos-rampant

    Immovable vision

    One more step in Ozu's long journey of trying to balance between a cinematic eye that sees with clarity into the disasters of dramatic life and reflections of that eye, his most famous films still ahead of him. French and Soviet silent filmmakers innovated in the 20's by looking to see the seeing eye in action, shaping, morphing world with vision. Ozu introduced something altogether different: non-mind, nothingness between eye and world.

    This was a completely novel thing at the time in terms of cinema - although it's supported by a rich Buddhist tradition.

    Even Ozu seemed unsure how to handle it. Cultivating this took him time. It is possible for example, that being a young Japanese cinephile fascinated with modern Western culture, he thought for a time that he was only reworking Chaplin, a visual story, pared down to essentials. He dabbled for a time with a fluid camera, after Sternberg. He did a chamber drama, controlled, stagebound environment, very German.

    But at some point, he must have suspected this had potential to go much deeper than anyone had envisioned at the time. I believe the key transition was Dragnet Girl from '33: a gangster film, very upbeat and jazzy, pure Sternberg razzle-dazzle, that is until the finale, where the modern movie night of danger and intrigue gave way to the clarity and stillness of the first morning light.

    This was great. He had discovered the eye, a landscape painter's eye, but not yet the right landscape. He spent the next couple of films looking. It should be life, he knew this much, but what kind of life?

    Now this. The story is about a teacher scarred by an accident he couldn't prevent, and efforts of his surrounding world to extricate him from the exile of self-imposed guilt. He sends his son away, to study, work hard and advance himself. He keeps himself away, somewhere in Tokyo, and only periodically surfaces back from we presume a frugal existence. At a class reunion with his former pupils, he is reminded, urged to consider, that the world is moving ahead, still turning. All his pupils are grown men, married, most of them with kids.

    So what a change from earlier fathers Ozu portrayed, often itinerant bums, a source of dismay or embarrassment for their kids. Here's a father who is hardened, by his own failures no less, resolute, preaching to his son that "work should be considered every man's mission" and to "serve your country".

    There is of course the obvious comment to be made about wartime allegory and the call for patriotic action, by itself not very interesting. Sons of Japan urged forward by a strict but well-meaning father. Incidentally, that same year was when tides of war started turning in the Pacific, blowing back towards Tokyo and destruction.

    But there is more here, for the first time. Now if we only listen to the story, the father is a tragic hero and a model to emulate. The dutiful son goes away in the finale, presumably to strive to fulfil his father's wishes. The parting image is one of many poignantly still shots.

    So far Ozu had favored dramatic resolution of that stillness - Floating Weeds, Tokyo Inn - and at first glance this is no different. But these images reveal a more complicated world beneath the story.

    Consider the plot again. The traumatizing event occurs because the father is not there to see. This is understandable; we cannot keep the whole world in check. It turns independent of us, transient, impermanent flow. The event also happens away from our sight, but in place of it we have a perspective the father lacks. At the crucial moment, Ozu cuts away to a shot of an ornamental stone top on a vertical post of a bridge. Now images of bridges feature prominently in Japanese iconography, signifiers among other things of what the Buddhist understand as the floating world. Distances in old Japan were traditionally measured from the great Nihonbashi bridge, the center of a symbolic axis mundi.

    There is no motion from this point of stillness in our film, although we know a plot is being set in motion in the flow of transient waters below, a life being lost.

    How does the father handle this? Distraught from the tragedy, he takes off with his son on a train. Not having made his peace with the fact, he later removes himself from sight of his son, who needs him more than anything else. And how does the son? He becomes the father he's been effectively deprived of, this broken man infused with values from that loss. In the finale he sails off into the night, onboard another train.

    Trains; man-made, mechanical structures of life, human karmas in motion.

    On the other hand, an immovable spot above the waters, clarity, dispassion, centered vision.
    8arthur_tafero

    Japanese Neorealism at its Best - There Was a Father

    This great film in the Japanese neorealism period is every bit as good as the best Italian neorealism films of the late 40s and early 50s. The Italian films are generally considered to be the best of that genre, but There Was a Father and films like Tokyo Story, a film about growing old in Japan and having your family leave you, are classics that have never been equalled in over 60 years. The secrets to these films are that they tell a simple story with simple techniques. There are no special effects, terrific chases, action sequences, or great suspense. Life is not like those things. These films are. Give yourself a treat and watch both of them.

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    • Anecdotes
      Contains only 353 shots. The average shot length is 14.8 seconds.
    • Versions alternatives
      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.
    • Connexions
      Referenced in J'ai vécu, mais... (1983)

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    • Date de sortie
      • 29 juin 2005 (France)
    • Pays d’origine
      • Japon
    • Langue
      • Japonais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
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    • Société de production
      • Shochiku
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      1 heure 34 minutes
    • Couleur
      • Black and White
    • Mixage
      • Mono
    • Rapport de forme
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