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- 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.
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Jun 10, 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.
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5 days ago · Yasujiro Ozu was a Japanese film director (1903-1963). He began with light, funny silent films and moved on to talkies that focused on the domestic life of ordinary people. After the war, he continued to depict mainly Japanese domestic life.
Jun 15, 2024 · The Only Son, Japanese director Yasujirō Ozu’s first talkie (and 35th film) u, opens with this brief, unattributed axiom. A brief prologue introduces us to Ozu’s famous style and tone— shooting subjects head-on, looking directly into the camera to confront the viewer with their emotional culpability.
2 days ago · Imamura was significantly influenced by Yasujirō Ozu, under whom he started his career as an assistant director. Despite their differing styles, Ozu’s meticulous approach to filmmaking left a lasting impact on Imamura. Among his contemporaries, Nagisa Oshima and Seijun Suzuki were prominent figures of the Japanese New Wave, along with ...
5 days ago · Surely this is a reference to the Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu? In interview, the director, Pat Collins, has said that the coincidence of the number plate was unplanned, but deliberately retained. Ozu is not well known in the West now, but he is certainly a canonical name among people, like Collins, who know their cinema history.
Jun 16, 2024 · If there’s any director who I can trust to take another stab at their work, it’s Yasujirō Ozu. One of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Ozu empathetic, personal films stand the test of time due to their accessibility and relatable themes.
Jun 19, 2024 · If Yasujirō Ozu’s filmography is a cinematic suite testifying to the ongoing tension between tradition and progress, then An Autumn Afternoon makes for a tender final movement, poignantly tracing a widowed father’s reluctant attempts to marry off his daughter against a vibrant backdrop of commercialism’s advance into mid-century Japan.
