Ozu first made a number of short comedies, before turning to more serious themes in the 1930s. The most prominent themes of Ozu's work are family and marriage, and especially the relationships …

Dec 8, 2025 · 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 …

Aug 13, 2023 · Presented by the Harvard Film Archive and Shochiku, in partnership with the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the Japan Foundation, this complete Ozu Yasujiro retrospective …

Ozu made thirty-five silent films, and a trilogy of youth comedies with serious overtones he turned out in the late 1920s and early 1930s placed him in the front ranks of Japanese directors.

Apr 22, 2025 · Between 1927 and 1962, Ozu, who died on his 60th birthday in 1963 from throat cancer, directed 54 films — nearly one for every year he was alive.

Yasujiro Ozu was Japanese cinema’s great poet of everyday life, and, 120 years after his birth, he remains one of the most significant film artists who ever lived.

It was American writer, film historian, and former MoMA film curator Donald Richie who began to bring Ozu’s films to the West in the early 1960s. Contrary to expectations, the international film world gave …

Few filmmakers outside the avant-garde have developed a personal style as rigorous as Yasujiro Ozu. While his films are in a sense experimental, he worked exclusively in the mainstream Japanese...

Dec 20, 2024 · After losing countless lives in World War II, safely assuming a lot of them were Shūhei’s/Ozu’s friends who died too young, no doubt Ozu had a new outlook on how precious life is. …

Dec 12, 2023 · Six writers celebrate the 120th anniversary of Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu’s birth by highlighting underacknowledged elements of his artistry and lesser-known gems in his oeuvre.