Late Spring
1972
Search results
Dec 12, 2019 · Yasujiro Ozu: 10 essential films. Your 10-film introduction to the Ozu Cinematic Universe... from Tokyo Story to An Autumn Afternoon.
Yasujiro Ozu was a Japanese film director who died 30 years ago. At the time of his death, he was all but unknown except to Japanese audiences--and even there, his popularity was limited.
Dec 11, 2015 · With his singular and unwavering style, Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu disregarded the established rules of cinema and created a visual language all his own. Precise compositions, contemplative pacing, low camera angles, and elliptical storytelling are just some of the signature techniques the great filmmaker used to evoke a sense of melancholy ...
Apr 1, 2024 · Ozu Yasujirō (born Dec. 12, 1903, Tokyo, Japan—died Dec. 12, 1963, Tokyo) was a motion-picture director who originated the shomin-geki (“common-people’s drama”), a genre dealing with lower-middle-class Japanese family life.
Yasujiro Ozu was Japanese cinema’s great poet of everyday life, and, 120 years after his birth, he remains one of the most significant film artists who ever lived.
Jun 8, 2020 · Where to begin with Yasujiro Ozu. A beginner’s path through the calm domestic dramas of Yasujiro Ozu. 8 June 2020. By Hayley Scanlon. Tokyo Story (1953) Why this might not seem so easy. The two Japanese films that loom largest in the canon are Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (1954) and Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story (1953).
Tokyo-born Yasujiro Ozu was a movie buff from childhood, often playing hooky from school in order to see Hollywood movies in his local theatre. In 1923 he landed a job as a camera assistant at Shochiku Studios in Tokyo. Three years later, he was made an assistant director and directed his first film the next year, Zange no yaiba (1927).
