This week, we’re taking an in-depth look at the life and legacy of Ozu Yasujiro, one of Japan’s most famous directors — despite the fact that it’s really only in the last decade and a half of his life that he had the freedom to make the films he wanted to make!
Sources
Joo, Woojeong. The Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro: Histories of the EVeryday
Richie, Donald. “Yasujiro Ozu: A Biographical Filmography.” Film Comment 7, No 1 (Spring, 1971)
Richie, Donald. Ozu: His Life and Films.
Bordwell, David. Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema.
Media
An excellent film essay on Ozu’s style.
Roger Ebert talks Ozu for the Criterion Collection
Not everyone suffers from quarantine’s boredom, so please don’t hesitate to provide descriptions.
Do you happen to have an Amazon link to the Blu-Ray collection that you mentioned?
I feel like I mentioned a few different ones; which one specifically was it? Criterion does have a list of all their Ozu films here: https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/22-yasujiro-ozu
Hi! Film student here. I happened to come across this episode just before we had Ozu in our film history class. Thank you for including both history-related and information on his style and work-related information. Such a great episode 🙂
P.S. New fan of the show, thank you for such interesting and well-researched content!