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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jeremy has more than 2000 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

It’s Ozu week around here: his last film, “An Autumn Afternoon,” is our DVD of the Week; meanwhile, his 1932 silent comedy “I Was Born, But…” (which Anthony Lane writes about in the magazine this week ...

The Japanese master specialized in portraits of generational conflict. “The Only Son” and “Early Summer” exemplify many of the qualities that make his work so important. By Ben Kenigsberg Gateway ...