Often called the most "Japanese" of Japanese directors, Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963) created films about middle-class Japanese life and familial relationships with simplicity and austerity. Known for keep...
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Critical Essay by Don Willis
Late Autumn is character as jigsaw puzzle, with tantalising missing pieces—the characters' silences, the film's empty spaces.
Ozu's film co...
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Critical Essay by Paul Schrader
The personal interpretation of Ozu's films has been encouraged by two misleading circumstances: one, that we simply happen to know much more about Ozu than we d...
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Critical Essay by Donald Richie
[The tension in Ozu's films] derives from confrontations between men and women who are in different sections of the pattern, between, for example, parents who h...
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Yasujiro Ozu
Critical Essay by Don Willis
