Days of Youth / 7th Heaven
Days of Youth (Japan, 1929)
The earliest known surviving feature from Ozu, the story of two college students who fall for the same girl, features the master’s winking acknowledgement of Hollywood’s influence with several direct references of Frank Borzage’s 7th Heaven.
Live musical accompaniment by Cliff Retallick.
35mm, b&w, silent, 103 min. Director: Yasujirô Ozu. Screenwriter: Akira Fushimi, Yasujirô Ozu. Cast: Ichiroô Yuûki, Tatsuo Saitô, Junko Matsui.
7th Heaven (1927)
Borzage won the first-ever Academy Award for Best Director for this romance about a street cleaner and a gamine who create a private heaven on the seventh-floor of a Paris tenement on the eve of WWI.
DCP, b&w, silent with sync score and effects, 110 min. Director: Frank Borzage. Cast: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Ben Bard.
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