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Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963) (12 December 1903 – 12 December 1963) is one of the greatest film-makers in the history of Japanese cinema (alongside Creator/KenjiMizoguchi), and in the opinion of cinephiles across the world, one of the greatest film-makers of all time (his rivals being Creator/JeanRenoir, Creator/OrsonWelles, Creator/IngmarBergman, Creator/JohnFord, Creator/AlfredHitchcock).
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* ThemeNaming: His movies! ''Late Spring'', ''Early Summer'', ''Early Spring'', ''Late Autumn'', ''The End of Summer'', ''An Autumn Afternoon''...and then there's ''Tokyo Chorus'', ''Tokyo Story'', and ''Tokyo Twilight''.
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Internationally, Ozu's films upon rediscovery was celebrated by Creator/PaulSchrader (who wrote a book on him), Creator/WimWenders, Claire Denis, Creator/HouHsiaoHsien[[note]]Who actually didn't see Ozu's films until his international fanboys compared to him, and upon seeing them, decided he was a fan after all[[/note]], Creator/AbbasKiarostami among many others.
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Yasujiro Ozu (1903–1963) was one of directors who led the Japanese film industry's output following UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
Like those of his contemporaries Creator/AkiraKurosawa and Creator/KenjiMizoguchi, Ozu's films analyze the conflict between the system of democracy imposed on Japan by the West immediately after the war and the lingering pre-war feudalism. While his peers used medieval Japan as the backdrop for the majority of their films, Ozu set his scope upon the modern era. His post-WWII films are known for examining the same subject, the domestic affairs of the bourgeois family; the movies he filmed before the war study the social struggles of Japan's lower-class denizens.
Like those of his contemporaries Creator/AkiraKurosawa and Creator/KenjiMizoguchi, Ozu's films analyze the conflict between the system of democracy imposed on Japan by the West immediately after the war and the lingering pre-war feudalism. While his peers used medieval Japan as the backdrop for the majority of their films, Ozu set his scope upon the modern era. His post-WWII films are known for examining the same subject, the domestic affairs of the bourgeois family; the movies he filmed before the war study the social struggles of Japan's lower-class denizens.
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Yasujiro Ozu (1903–1963)was is one of directors who led the greatest film-makers in the history of Japanese film industry's output following UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.cinema (alongside Creator/KenjiMizoguchi), and in the opinion of cinephiles across the world, one of the greatest film-makers of all time (his rivals being Creator/JeanRenoir, Creator/OrsonWelles, Creator/IngmarBergman, Creator/JohnFord, Creator/AlfredHitchcock).
Like those Ozu differed from most of his contemporaries within Japanese Cinema for the fact that he didn't make films in the Jidaigeki (i.e. period film or HistoricalFiction genre) that was all the rage (the exception is ''Floating Weeds'' which is a period film about actors and is not really action packed). Most of his films, especially his most popular ones are set resolutely in contemporary Japan. Most of them are comedies, or family-dramas (with comedic scenes) dealing with the middle-class and the lower-middle class, and a lot of them especially the films he made in TheFifties feature older characters (grandparents especially) as protagonists. And yet, despite all that, he was one of the most popular and commercially successful film-makers in the '50s Japan.
Ozu's reputation within Japan was uncontested in his lifetime. He was seen as a senior statesman and notable intervened on the behalf of young Creator/AkiraKurosawa when his first film ''Sanshiro Sugata'' irritated some producers andCreator/KenjiMizoguchi, censors. But everyone within Japan was convinced that his films wouldn't attract an international audience because they were "too Japanese", with many convinced that Kurosawa attracted attention because he was "too Western". The actual story is a good deal more complicated of course. Ozu was by all accounts an avid cinephile, who loved Hollywood films (Creator/KingVidor and Creator/ErnstLubitsch were his favorites), and his most famous film, ''Tokyo Story'' was a remake of ''Film/MakeWayForTomorrow'' by Creator/LeoMcCarey and Ozu never missed a chance to flaunt his love for movies by putting movie posters of his latest favorites in the background of his films. Indeed David Bordwell argued that Ozu was one of the most cinephilic directors before the UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave. The distinct style of Ozu's films, the "tatami shots", the lack of camera movements, the complete violation of the classical editing pattern (i.e. the 180 degree axis and shot/reverse shot staging of dialogue scenes), initially led many to assume that Ozu was a Japanese naive artist, i.e. a kind of primitive making films analyze in line with Japanese culture, but Ozu was vastly different from Japanese cinema as well. When Ozu finally did get international recognition, courtesy Donald Richie (the American GI stationed in Japan who became a major scholar of Japanese culture and cinema), he was bemused with the conflict many interpretations of his films from international viewers, joking at one point, "[[{{Orientalism}} when Americans don't understand something Japanese, they say it's Zen]]."
His personal life is the subject of much interest by scholars within Japan and around the world. He lived all his life with his mother, was never married; he was known to be an alcoholic whose screenplays were written with his pal Kogo Noda in the middle of binges drinking sake (leading to jokes among film historians that the American director he'd most likely get along with is "Bloody" Creator/SamPeckinpah), and was expelled from his school [[http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/49594 for writing a love letter to a boy]] but known in his adult life (as recorded in his diaries) for frequenting prostitutes. The drastic contrast between his personal life, largely solitary, quite social, and certainly quite filled with "the other", from the content of his films (largely focused on the Japanese middle-class) has made him a source of enduring fascination.
Within Japan, in the height of his fame and popularity, Japanese audiences, contemporary film-makers, as well as would be rebels wanting to tear down the system (such as Kurosawa, Imamura, Oshima) saw Ozu as a kind ofdemocracy imposed on Japan by stodgy film-maker whose films are sentimental glorification of the West immediately after Japanese family and ThePatriarch who is perennially [[DisappointedInYou betrayed and disillusioned by his kids]]. Later writers (including some of the war same rebels) saw Ozu as an experimental film-maker whose subject was the breakdown of the Japanese family, the alienation of his characters from the roles assigned by society, and are in fact heavily critical of the lingering pre-war feudalism. While Japanese father-figure. Much of his peers used medieval Japan as the backdrop films are celebrated for the majority of their films, Ozu set his scope upon portrayal of women, with female characters having depth and complexity beyond being simply love interest, while also showing some of the modern era. harshness of marriage (such as DomesticAbuse and spousal rape in ''A Hen in the Wind''). The films he made during the early depression are silent comedies about the travails of the poor, many of them inspired by Chaplin (the most celebrated is ''I Was Born, But...''). His post-WWII films are known for examining the same subject, the domestic affairs of the bourgeois family; the movies he filmed before the war study the social struggles of Japan's lower-class denizens.
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Internationally, Ozu's films upon rediscovery was celebrated by Creator/PaulSchrader (who wrote a book on him), Creator/WimWenders, Claire Denis, Creator/HouHsioHsien[[note]]Who actually didn't see Ozu's films until his international fanboys compared to him, and upon seeing them, decided he was a fan after all[[/note]], Creator/AbbasKiarostami among many others.
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Ozu's reputation within Japan was uncontested in his lifetime. He was seen as a senior statesman and notable intervened on the behalf of young Creator/AkiraKurosawa when his first film ''Sanshiro Sugata'' irritated some producers and
His personal life is the subject of much interest by scholars within Japan and around the world. He lived all his life with his mother, was never married; he was known to be an alcoholic whose screenplays were written with his pal Kogo Noda in the middle of binges drinking sake (leading to jokes among film historians that the American director he'd most likely get along with is "Bloody" Creator/SamPeckinpah), and was expelled from his school [[http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/49594 for writing a love letter to a boy]] but known in his adult life (as recorded in his diaries) for frequenting prostitutes. The drastic contrast between his personal life, largely solitary, quite social, and certainly quite filled with "the other", from the content of his films (largely focused on the Japanese middle-class) has made him a source of enduring fascination.
Within Japan, in the height of his fame and popularity, Japanese audiences, contemporary film-makers, as well as would be rebels wanting to tear down the system (such as Kurosawa, Imamura, Oshima) saw Ozu as a kind of
Internationally, Ozu's films upon rediscovery was celebrated by Creator/PaulSchrader (who wrote a book on him), Creator/WimWenders, Claire Denis, Creator/HouHsioHsien[[note]]Who actually didn't see Ozu's films until his international fanboys compared to him, and upon seeing them, decided he was a fan after all[[/note]], Creator/AbbasKiarostami among many others.
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Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963) was one of directors that lead the Japanese film industry's output following WorldWarII. Along with Creator/AkiraKurosawa and KenjiMizoguchi, Ozu's films analyze the conflict between the system of democracy imposed on Japan by the West immediately after the war and the lingering pre-war feudalism. While his peers used medieval Japan as the backdrop for the majority of their films, Ozu set his scope upon the modern era. His post-WWII films are known for examining the same subject, the domestic affairs of the bourgeois family; the movies he filmed before the war study the social struggles of Japan's lower-class denizens.
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Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963) was one of directors that lead the Japanese film industry's output following WorldWarII. Along with Creator/AkiraKurosawa and KenjiMizoguchi, Ozu's films analyze the conflict between the system of democracy imposed on Japan by the West immediately after the war and the lingering pre-war feudalism. While his peers used medieval Japan as the backdrop for the majority of their films, Ozu set his scope upon the modern era. His post-WWII films are known for examining the same subject, the domestic affairs of the bourgeois family; the movies he filmed before the war study the social struggles of Japan's lower-class denizens.
!!The films of Yasujiro Ozu include:
* ''A Story of Floating Weeds'' (1934)
* ''Late Spring'' (1949)
* ''Early Summer'' (1951)
* ''Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice'' (1952)
* ''Tokyo Story'' (1953)
* ''Equinox Flower'' (1958)
* ''An Autumn Afternoon'' (1962)
!!Ozu's films contain examples of:
* AuthorFilibuster: Subverted. Ozu's goal when making his movies was to never manipulate any aspect of the film to explicitly suggest his attitudes towards the subject, hence why he abandoned many of the camera and editing techniques that he believed attributed to him making any sort of statement to the audience.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Chishu Ryu and Setsuko Hara being most notable among the number of performers that consistently appeared in his films, often playing similar characters.
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** Shot/reverse-shots used for many dialogue scenes between two of his characters.
** The camera raised three feet from the ground, from the perspective of someone kneeling on the floor in the traditional Japanese manner.
** Still lifes of various objects, often called "pillow shots" by critics.
** Trains -- most of his films contain shots of them or at least have characters that make reference to them.
* SliceOfLife
* YamatoNadeshiko: Usually conversed and/or deconstructed within the context of the role of females and their relationships with family members in the post-war period.
!!The films of Yasujiro Ozu include:
* ''A Story of Floating Weeds'' (1934)
* ''Late Spring'' (1949)
* ''Early Summer'' (1951)
* ''Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice'' (1952)
* ''Tokyo Story'' (1953)
* ''Equinox Flower'' (1958)
* ''An Autumn Afternoon'' (1962)
!!Ozu's films contain examples of:
* AuthorFilibuster: Subverted. Ozu's goal when making his movies was to never manipulate any aspect of the film to explicitly suggest his attitudes towards the subject, hence why he abandoned many of the camera and editing techniques that he believed attributed to him making any sort of statement to the audience.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Chishu Ryu and Setsuko Hara being most notable among the number of performers that consistently appeared in his films, often playing similar characters.
* SignatureShot: Several:
** Shot/reverse-shots used for many dialogue scenes between two of his characters.
** The camera raised three feet from the ground, from the perspective of someone kneeling on the floor in the traditional Japanese manner.
** Still lifes of various objects, often called "pillow shots" by critics.
** Trains -- most of his films contain shots of them or at least have characters that make reference to them.
* SliceOfLife
* YamatoNadeshiko: Usually conversed and/or deconstructed within the context of the role of females and their relationships with family members in the post-war period.
