Yasujirō Ozu

Japanese film director, screenwriter (1903–1963)

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Lived 1903–1963, aged 60Japan

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Era
1903–1963
Aged 60

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Updated 2026-05-29

Ozu shaped postwar Japanese cinema by turning family drama into an art form across five decades. Late Spring and Tokyo Story made him the rare silent-era director whose work only deepened in colour.

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Yasujirō Ozu was a Japanese filmmaker. He began his career during the era of silent films, and his last films were made in colour in the early 1960s. 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 between generations. His most widely beloved films include Late Spring (1949), Tokyo Story (1953) and An Autumn Afternoon (1962).

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