A Yasujiro Ozu film is instantly exhilarating because of the tension between his rigorously economic style, with its profoundly evocative images, and his warm compassion for the Japanese. It lifts his ...

Legendary director Yasujiro Ozu’s rigorously spare style was often marked by long, slow takes -- the camera set at the eye level of a person sitting on the tatami matting that cover the floors of a ...

Strictly speaking, Yasujirō Ozu is not a household name—at least not on this continent. While he enjoyed some international recognition in the 1950s and 60s, when a few of his works were first shown ...

Benedict is a college graduate with a degree in Film and Screen Media and a future unemployed Letterboxd user. He got into movies through a childhood love of blockbusters and comic book movies, and ...

Directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim and produced in cooperation with the Yasujiro Ozu estate, the forthcoming film is described as a moving meditation on the life and ideas of the ...

Film director Ozu Yasujirō died on December 12, 1963―his sixtieth birthday. Over the course of the 50 years that have passed since then, numerous attempts have been made to interpret his works. What ...

Ozu Yasujirō, director of the 1953 masterpiece Tokyo Story, was born in 1903 in the very city he depicted numerous times. He lived through dramatic social transformation in his country and played a ...

The great Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu made movies that sneak up on you with their shrewd delicacy. From the late 1940s onward—Ozu died of cancer in 1963—virtually all of his plots were simple ...

A couple of years ago, Sight & Sound magazine shocked those who care about such things when it announced the results of a survey of critics and other professionals that named the greatest film of all ...

When Eileen Yoon and Grace Zhang, both BFA Film ’20, attended a screening of Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu’s feature Late Spring as part of a course at Pratt, they had no idea it would alter the ...