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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dog is a man’s best friend … and also his muse. Director James Gunn’s real-life dog, Ozu, served as the inspiration and the 3-D model for Krypto, the flying dog that the titular hero in Superman is ...

We’re calling it now; Krypto the Superdog is going to be the breakout star of James Gunn’s Superman. We already love the rambunctious alien pooch just from the trailer. We knew his upcoming appearance ...