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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adam Grinwald is a Feature Writer at Collider with a lifelong passion for cinema, literature, music, and culture. From the early days of memorizing practically every single line of dialogue off a ...

There’s been an epic find for serious film buffs this week. A nearly-finished 1929 film called “Tokkan Kozo,” or “A Straightforward Boy,” by the hugely-influential Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu has ...

In the clip above, I discuss Yasujiro Ozu’s “An Autumn Afternoon,” from 1962. With an intense tenderness for his characters and an exquisite sensitivity to their slightest emotional tremors, Ozu (who ...

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 ...

Consider the "wink or twitch" problem, which anthropologists have used to describe the fundamental challenge of deciphering another culture. The subject's eye moves, but was it just an involuntary ...

YOKOHAMA--A 16mm film print of an extended version of Yasujiro Ozu’s 1929 silent film “A Straightforward Boy” has been found, containing about six minutes of long-lost footage. A short version of the ...