Light-hearted and mildly amusing, Ozu’s most accessible late-career work explores the generation gap and quirks of communal communication amid a rise in consumerism in a modernising Japan.
One of Ozu’s most accomplished silent efforts, this love story of jealousy and guilt set in the milieu of a small-time crook displays a mastery of visual storytelling.
An underrated postwar effort by Ozu, featuring an indelible performance by Kinuyo Tanaka whose character must do whatever it takes to fulfil her responsibilities as a mother to a sick child.
Continue reading →Ozu’s final work is a near masterpiece, a meditation on marriage and ageing through the lens of a father-daughter relationship.
Continue reading →A rare Ozu masterpiece about being optimistic and moving on with life, shot in rich colour by the famous Kazuo Miyagawa.
This post-“Tokyo Story” drama may be one of Ozu’s longest endeavours, but it is also a superb if anomalous (at least of his later works) effort that centers on a young, salaried man tackling career and marriage.
One of Ozu’s more complex treatments on the institution of marriage, with a standout performance by the legendary Setsuko Hara.
Continue reading →Ozu’s crowning achievement is a true triumph of life-affirming, humanist filmmaking.
Continue reading →For fans, this lesser Ozu is still worth a pop in what is a leisurely-paced, relatively loosely-plotted, if slightly overdrawn drama about a middle-aged couple’s marital crisis.
Continue reading →Ozu’s first true masterpiece is a highly-resonant and poignant tale of a father and daughter reluctantly trying to let go of each other.
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