yasujiro ozu

San Francisco Silent Film Festival: Bizarre Twists, Frantic Disasters, and Dangerous Women

San Francisco Silent Film Festival: Bizarre Twists, Frantic Disasters, and Dangerous Women

The San Francisco Silent Film Festival features iron-masked swashbuckling, flabbergasting twists, sexy farce, visual beauty, and strong women who stare into the camera, unnerving viewers.

Yasujiro Ozu on the Arts of Pachinko, Baseball, and Marriage

Yasujiro Ozu on the Arts of Pachinko, Baseball, and Marriage

Yasujiro Ozu's films can often be described as movies in which nothing happens -- nothing except the revelation of a world, its inhabitants, and a deep understanding of their contradictions.

Revelations of Stillness in Yasujirô Ozu’s ‘Tokyo Twilight’

Revelations of Stillness in Yasujirô Ozu’s ‘Tokyo Twilight’

The Film Forum in New York City is showing Yasujirô Ozu's Tokyo Twilight for a limited time from Friday, 8 November to Thursday, 14 November. This is a film that one needs to savor and contemplate, a film that captures the tribulations of this world and the evanescent truth that lies beneath them.

Revolvers, Redemption, and Yasujiro Ozu’s Silent Film Experimentation with Crime Drama

Revolvers, Redemption, and Yasujiro Ozu’s Silent Film Experimentation with Crime Drama

Like Jean-Luc Godard and other French directors who were later influenced by the American crime film tradition, Japan's own Yasujiro Ozu made the genre his own.
Yasujiro Ozu Explores the Cost of Eliminating Conflict

Yasujiro Ozu Explores the Cost of Eliminating Conflict

Criterion's Blu-ray re-release of Tokyo Story situates it in the context of Yasujiro Ozu's life and career, his most accessible work, yet one which still holds back secrets.

The 100 Essential Directors Part 7: Kenji Mizoguchi to Satyajit Ray

Yasujiro Ozu’s ‘Late Autumn’ and ‘An Autumn Afternoon’

An Autumn Afternoon