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Yasujiro Ozu

Yasujiro Ozu


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Yasujiro Ozu - what members say


  • Ozu - Vol. 2
  • Ozu - Vol. 2 review by from Helmsley, North Riding of Yorkshire
    Rated - 5.0 stars Delicate Flavouring 24 April 2011
    ... ways perhaps less sharply focussed both visually and in narrative than some of Yasujiro Ozu’s most outstanding films ... but that may simply be the mood in which I saw it....   Read customer review
  • Tokyo Story - Blu-ray
  • Tokyo Story - Blu-ray review by RJNeb2 from London
    Rated - 4.0 stars An ageless story 18 September 2010
    ...instaking, fastidious detail by one of cinema's great observationists. Director Yasujiro Ozu uses a static camera throughout to focus intently on what is being said and - p...   Read customer review

Yasujiro Ozu - filmography


  • The End Of Summer
  • The End Of Summer on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Ganjiro Nakamura,  Michiyo Aratama,  Reiko Dan
    Director: Yasujiro Ozu
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    As the families traditional sake business begins to suffers in the face of competition from a increasingly industrialised post-war Japan; the head of the family, Manbei, meets an old flame and restarts his friendship with her. The family disapproves but the old man does not care; he is further ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 837 members
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  • Ozu - Vol. 4 - Late Autumn
  • Ozu - Vol. 4 - Late Autumn on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Chishu Ryu,  Shima Iwashita,  Keiji Sada
    Director: Yasujiro Ozu
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ayako Miwa (Yoko Tsukasa) gives up thoughts of marriage in order to care for her widowed mother Akiko (Setsuko Hara). However, Akiko wishes her daughter to marry even though she will be left alone into old age and when the well-meaning relatives of her deceased husband step into the fray suitors ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 269 members
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  • Ozu - Vol. 3 - Good Morning
  • Ozu - Vol. 3 - Good Morning (1959)
    Starring: Ineko Arima,  Setsuko Hara,  Chishu Ryu
    Director: Yasujiro Ozu
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    GOOD MORNING is an update on his earlier silent film I WAS BORN, BUT...(1932), focusing on the impact of western culture and the decline of traditional values amongst the youth of post war Japan. it is a sparkling and lively portrait of divergent shades of humanity.
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 198 members
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  • Floating Weeds
  • Floating Weeds on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Ganjiro Nakamura,  Machiko Kyo,  Ayako Wakao
    Director: Yasujiro Ozu
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This 1959 Ozu production centers on the likable but fallible leader of an itinerant acting troupe (floating weeds being the Japanese name for such groups), Kimajuro, played brilliantly by Ganjiro Nakamura. The film opens on a lazy, stagnant river as the troupe lays spread about on a boat deck ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,113 member
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  • Ozu - Vol. 3 - Tokyo Twilight
  • Ozu - Vol. 3 - Tokyo Twilight (1957)
    Starring: Ineko Arima,  Setsuko Hara,  Chishu Ryu
    Director: Yasujiro Ozu
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    TOKYO TWILIGHT was his last black and white film and focused on family disintegration; it is also his darkest masterpiece. two adult sisters return to the family home and discover their long missing mother living with another man, leading to a destructive path of despair and isolation.
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 203 members
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  • Early Summer - Blu-ray
  • Early Summer - Blu-ray (1951)
    Starring: Chikage Awashima,  Chishu Ryu,  Setsuko Hara
    Director: Yasujiro Ozu
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In postwar Tokyo, this household is loving and serene: older parents, their 28-year-old daughter Noriko, their married son, his devoted wife, and two rascally sons. Their only discontent is Noriko's lack of a husband. Society is changing: she works, she has women friends who tease and argue, her ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 99 members
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  • Ozu - Vol. 4
  • Ozu - Vol. 4 (2 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Chishu Ryu,  Shima Iwashita,  Keiji Sada
    Director: Yasujiro Ozu
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Late Autumn (aka: Akibiyori): Ayako Miwa (Yoko Tsukasa) gives up thoughts of marriage in order to care for her widowed mother Akiko (Setsuko Hara). However, Akiko wishes her daughter to marry even though she will be left alone into old age and when the well-meaning relatives of her deceased husband ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 260 members
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  • The Ozu Collection - Three Melodramas
  • The Ozu Collection - Three Melodramas
    Starring: Setsuko Hara,  Ineko Arima,  Chishu Ryu
    Director: Yasujiro Ozu
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The BFI presents three films by Japanese master director Yasujiro Ozu. Melodrama is not a word usually associated with Ozu's quietly poetic oeuvre but his post-war Early Spring (1956) and Tokyo Twilight (1957) combine darker elements with his idiosyncratic style to create powerful dramas. Also ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 4 members
    Due for release on 18th June 2012
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  • Ozu - Vol. 2
  • Ozu - Vol. 2 (2 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Chouko Iida,  Hohi Aoki,  Shin Saburi
    Director: Yasujiro Ozu
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Features two Yasujiro Ozu films. 'Record Of A Tenement Gentleman' tells the story of a young boy who, abandoned by his father, strikes up a friendship with a local widower. In 'Flavour Of Green Tea Over Rice' a couple set about livening up their banal marriage.
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1,103 member
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  • Ozu - Vol. 1
  • Ozu - Vol. 1 (3 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Chishu Ryu,  Setsuko Hara,  Chieko Higashiyama
    Director: Yasujiro Ozu
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    'Tokyo Story' is a depiction of life's disappointments and frustrations told through the eyes of an ageing couple who go to visit their grown-up son and daughter in Tokyo. Japanese dialogue with English subtitles.
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 1,494 member
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