Ozu’s final work is a near masterpiece, a meditation on marriage and ageing through the lens of a father-daughter relationship.
Tag / Yasujiro Ozu
Floating Weeds (1959)
A rare Ozu masterpiece about being optimistic and moving on with life, shot in rich colour by the famous Kazuo Miyagawa.
Early Spring (1956)
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.
Early Summer (1951)
One of Ozu’s more complex treatments on the institution of marriage, with a standout performance by the legendary Setsuko Hara.
Tokyo Story (1953)
Ozu’s crowning achievement is a true triumph of life-affirming, humanist filmmaking.
Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice, The (1952)
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.
Late Spring (1949)
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.
Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947)
A lesser known work by Ozu that is an astute observation of a self-centered society.
