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Yasujirō Ozu. Yasujirō Ozu (小津 安二郎, Ozu Yasujirō, 12 December 1903 – 12 December 1963) was a Japanese filmmaker. He began his career during the era of silent films, and his last films were made in colour in the early 1960s. Ozu first made a number of short comedies, before turning to more serious themes in the 1930s.
IMDb provides an overview of the life and career of Yasujirô Ozu, a renowned Japanese director of silent and sound films. Learn about his early influences, his war experiences, his masterpieces, and his legacy.
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- I Was Born, But… (1932) Only 36 of Ozu’s 54 films survive to this day. He made the bulk of the lost titles, including his debut and only period drama, The Sword of Penitence (1927), during the silent era.
- Dragnet Girl (1933) This Yokohama-set crime drama is barely recognisable as a Japanese film (save for its Japanese performers), let alone one from the future director of Tokyo Story (1953).
- A Story of Floating Weeds (1934) The hallmarks of the Ozu style are much more evident in this portrait of the dramas within an itinerant kabuki troupe in which not all of the family relationships are immediately apparent.
- Late Spring (1949) The postwar era saw Ozu and his screenwriter Kogo Noda narrowing their focus almost exclusively towards family life. Late Spring might be described as the archetypal Ozu set-up, and the first in the so-called ‘Noriko trilogy’, in which Setsuko Hara played effectively the same character in different household situations.
Aug 13, 2023 · A retrospective of all of Ozu's extant films screened on 35mm, with five new prints created for the occasion. Learn about Ozu's life, style, influences and legacy as a prolific and influential filmmaker who distilled cinema to its essential elements.
Dec 11, 2015 · Learn how the Japanese director created a visual language of his own with precise compositions, low camera angles, and elliptical storytelling. Watch a video essay that explores Ozu's aesthetic and narrative motifs across his extensive body of work.
Dec 14, 2012 · Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. 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.
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Sep 7, 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. Owing to the centrality of domestic relationships in his films, their detailed character portrayals, and their pictorial beauty, Ozu was considered the most typically Japanese of all directors and received more honours in his own country than did any other director.
