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    Yasujirō Ozu (小津 安二郎, Ozu Yasujirō, 12 December 1903 – 12 December 1963) was a Japanese filmmaker. He began his career during the era of silent films,...
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    The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (category Films directed by Yasujirō Ozu)
    お茶漬の味, Hepburn: Ochazuke no Aji) is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. The screenplay concerns a wealthy middle-aged couple (played by Shin...
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  • Ōzu Island, an island in the Seto Inland Sea in Japan Ozu Moreira (born 1986), a beach soccer player Yasujirō Ozu (1903–63), a Japanese filmmaker Ozu...
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    performances in Yasujirō Ozu's films Late Spring (1949) and Tokyo Story (1953), she had already appeared in 67 films before working with Ozu. She is widely...
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  • Early Spring (1956 film) (category Films directed by Yasujirō Ozu)
    Early Spring (早春, Sōshun) is a 1956 film by Yasujirō Ozu about a married salaryman (Ryō Ikebe) who escapes the monotony of married life and his work at...
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    Equinox Flower (category Films directed by Yasujirō Ozu)
    Equinox Flower (彼岸花, Higanbana) is a 1958 color Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu which is based on a novel by Ton Satomi. Wataru Hirayama (Shin Saburi)...
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    women. The Moon Has Risen (Tsuki wa noborinu) in 1955 was scripted by Yasujirō Ozu, and The Wandering Princess (Ruten no onna) was scripted by Natto Wada...
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    Late Spring (category Films directed by Yasujirō Ozu)
    Spring (晩春, Banshun) is a 1949 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and written by Ozu and Kogo Noda, based on the short novel Father and Daughter...
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  • Tokyo Twilight (category Films directed by Yasujirō Ozu)
    boshoku) is a 1957 Japanese drama film by Yasujirō Ozu. It is the story of two sisters (played by Ineko Arima and Ozu regular Setsuko Hara) who are reunited...
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    There Was a Father (category Films directed by Yasujirō Ozu)
    (Japanese: 父ありき, Hepburn: Chichi Ariki) is a 1942 Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. Shuhei Horikawa (Chishū Ryū) works as a mathematics school-teacher in...
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  • to: Good Morning (1959 film), 1959 Japanese comedy film by director Yasujirō Ozu Ohayo Mountain, Catskill Mountains, New York, US A misspelling of Ohio...
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    Tokyo Story (category Films directed by Yasujirō Ozu)
    Hepburn: Tōkyō Monogatari) is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and starring Chishū Ryū and Chieko Higashiyama, about an aging couple...
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  • Late Autumn (1960 film) (category Films directed by Yasujirō Ozu)
    lit. "A Calm Autumn Day") is a 1960 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. It stars Setsuko Hara and Yoko Tsukasa as a mother and daughter, and...
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  • Floating Weeds (category Films directed by Yasujirō Ozu)
    directed by Yasujirō Ozu, starring Nakamura Ganjirō II and Machiko Kyō. Considered one of the greatest films ever made, it is a remake of Ozu's own black-and-white...
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  • Good Morning (1959 film) (category Films directed by Yasujirō Ozu)
    co-written and directed by Yasujirō Ozu. It is a loose remake of his own 1932 silent film I Was Born, But..., and is Ozu's second film in color. The film...
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  • Early Summer (category Films directed by Yasujirō Ozu)
    Bakushū, Lit. "Barley Harvest Time") is a 1951 Japanese drama by Yasujirō Ozu. Like most of Ozu's post-war films, Early Summer deals with issues ranging from...
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  • An Autumn Afternoon (category Films directed by Yasujirō Ozu)
    of Sanma") is a 1962 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu for Shochiku Films. It stars Ozu regular Chishū Ryū as the patriarch of the Hirayama...
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  • Ozu's Anti-Cinema (Japanese: 小津安二郎の反映画, Hepburn: Ozu Yasujirō no han eiga) is a 1998 book written by Yoshishige Yoshida (also called Kiju Yoshida), translated...
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  • to Yasujirō Ozu, with direct reference to the late director's Tokyo Story (1953). It premiered at a festival commemorating the centenary of Ozu's birth...
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  • Waseda in 1951, Imamura began his film career working as an assistant to Yasujirō Ozu at Shochiku Studios on films like Early Summer and Tokyo Story. Imamura...
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    produced by Bandai Namco Filmworks). Its best remembered directors include Yasujirō Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Mikio Naruse, Keisuke Kinoshita and Yōji Yamada. It...
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    historical and contemporary Japan. Together with Akira Kurosawa and Yasujirō Ozu, Mizoguchi is seen as a representative of the "golden age" of Japanese...
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    as influences. In an interview, he claimed that Alfred Hitchcock and Yasujirō Ozu contributed to shaping his personal vision of the medium. He has also...
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    actor Toshiro Mifune were Drunken Angel in 1948 and Stray Dog in 1949. Yasujirō Ozu directed the critically and commercially successful Late Spring in 1949...
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  • 1941) is a Japanese stage and film actress who has appeared in films of Yasujirō Ozu, Keisuke Kinoshita, Masaki Kobayashi and most frequently of Masahiro...
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  • Tokyo-Ga (category Yasujirō Ozu)
    1985 documentary film directed by Wim Wenders, about Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu. An international co-production of the United States and West Germany...
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    Born, But..., Yasujirō Ozu, 1932 Passing Fancy, Yasujirō Ozu, 1933 The Goddess, Wu Yonggang, 1934 A Story of Floating Weeds, Yasujirō Ozu, 1934 The Downfall...
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  • director Yasujirō Ozu. The minimalist approach to storytelling, the focus on ordinary life, and the 4:3 aspect ratio of the film are all nods to Ozu. Also...
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  • Days of Youth (category Films directed by Yasujirō Ozu)
    Gakusei romance: Wakaki hi, 1929) is a Japanese comedy film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. It is the oldest known surviving film by the director. The film tells...
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  • Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray, François Truffaut, Yasujirō Ozu and many other well-regarded directors. Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh...
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