Yasujiro Ozu

This year marks the 120th anniversary of Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu’s birth. From his early silent films to his final features in the 1960s, Ozu perfected a style that stripped away unnecessary plot mechanics and camera movement. In doing so, he produced a cinema whose surface simplicity belies character studies of depth, warmth and on […]

Yasujiro Ozus bitterljuva mästerverk blev i Sight & Sounds senaste omröstning (som äger rum var tionde år) framröstad som historiens bästa film av en jury bestående av 358 regissörer, däribland Scorsese, Coppola och Tarantino

A constant fixture in critic’s polls, Yasujito Ozu’s most enduring masterpiece, Tokyo Story, is a beautifully nuanced exploration of filial duty, expectation and regret. From the simple tale of an elderly husband and wife’s visit to Tokyo to see their grown-up children, Ozu draws a compelling contrast between the measured dignity of age and the […]