Yasujirō Ozu is read about 1,136 times a day, in 54 languages.
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Something wrong?A Japanese director whose quiet studies of family friction - parents aging, children drifting, marriages arranged or avoided - turned him into a filmmaker other filmmakers revere above all others.
A life in dates
The End of SummerFilm, Director, Writer1959
Floating WeedsFilm, Director, Writer1958Medal with Purple RibbonAwardSutherland TrophyAward1957
Tokyo TwilightFilm, Director, Writer1955
The Moon Has RisenFilm, Writer1952Blue Ribbon Awards for Best DirectorAward
The Flavor of Green Tea Over RiceFilm, 1952Director, Writer1950Mainichi Film Award for Best ScreenplayAward
The Munekata SistersFilm, 1950Director, Writer1948
A Hen in the WindFilm, Director, Writer1942
There Was a FatherFilm, Director, Writer1937
What Did the Lady Forget?Film, Director, Writer1935
An Inn in TokyoFilm, Director, Writer1933
Dragnet GirlFilm, Director, Writer1931
The Lady and the BeardFilm, Director1929
A Straightforward BoyFilm, Director1903Born12 December 1903Also in Deutsch
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Filmography 40
WBWatashi-wa beretto
AAAn Autumn AfternoonTSThe End of Summer
LALate Autumn
GMGood MorningFWFloating Weeds
EFEquinox FlowerTTTokyo Twilight
ESEarly SpringTRThe Moon Has Risen
TSTokyo StoryTRThe Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
ESEarly SummerTSThe Munekata Sisters
LSLate SpringAWA Hen in the Wind
RGRecord of a Tenement GentlemanTFThere Was a Father
BFBrothers and Sisters of the Toda FamilyWFWhat Did the Lady Forget?
TSThe Only Son
TDThe Lion DanceATAn Inn in Tokyo
AWA Story of Floating Weeds
ALA Mother Should Be Loved
WTWoman of Tokyo
PFPassing FancyDGDragnet Girl
IBI Was Born, But...
WYWhere Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
UAUntil the Day We Meet Again
TCTokyo ChorusTBThe Lady and the Beard
TWThat Night's Wife
WCWalk Cheerfully
IBI Flunked, But...ABA Straightforward Boy
IBI Graduated, But...
DYDays of Youth
FFFighting Friends106 credits on file
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About this person
Yasujirō Ozu started in silent comedies in the 1920s, then pivoted to weightier material in the 1930s: the space between generations, the pull between duty and desire, the small fractures inside ordinary households. His career ran until the early 1960s, ending in colour just as it had begun in silence. Late Spring arrived in 1949, Tokyo Story in 1953, An Autumn Afternoon in 1962 - the last he'd make, dying on his sixtieth birthday in December 1963. The work outlasted him by miles. In 2012, when Sight & Sound polled the world's directors, 358 of them named Tokyo Story the greatest film ever made.
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