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Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujiro Ozu)
After a decade of slow self-education in cinephilia, I’ve finally sat down and watched an Ozu movie. These happy folks are travelling to the city to visit their children and grandchildren. It’s implied...
View ArticleAutumn Afternoon (1962, Yasujiro Ozu)
Ozu’s final film, released less than a month before he died. Only my second, after Tokyo Story. Another film about family life, with emphasis on the play between generations in the same family and...
View ArticleEquinox Flower (1958, Yasujiro Ozu)
This came right in between the two other Ozu films I’ve seen, around the same time as The Hidden Fortress, Underworld Beauty and Giants & Toys. Ozu’s first color film (in a very nice looking print...
View ArticleA Story of Floating Weeds (1934, Yasujiro Ozu)
My first mid-30′s silent film. Chaplin’s Modern Times doesn’t count, and the Russian Happiness was two years earlier. Japan still had union narrators in theaters, so their cinema stayed silent longer...
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I Was Born, But… (1932, Yasujiro Ozu)
“Will they lead the same sorry lives that we have?” The Eclipse box set title is “Three Family Comedies” but I’d forgotten that Ozu even made comedies until the opening titles played over a drawing of...
View ArticleLate Spring (1949, Yasujiro Ozu)
First of three Ozu movies within a few years in which Setsuko Hara is named Noriko. Here she’s a young woman (but not so young anymore) living with her absent-minded professor father (Chishu Ryu of...
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Good Morning (1959, Yasujiro Ozu)
Uh oh, opens with fun goofy comedy music. This is fast-paced for Ozu – it looks like Tati and there’s a lot of cartoon farting (proud of myself for making that connection, David Cairns mentions Tati in...
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