Film director Ozu Yasujirō died on December 12, 1963―his sixtieth birthday. Over the course of the 50 years that have passed since then, numerous attempts have been made to interpret his works.

In James Gunn's Superman, the superhero's furry best friend, Krypto, is immensely loved by everyone. But did you know that, in fact, James Gunn's rescue pup Ozu has an imperative role in the making of ...

Ozu Yasujirō, director of the 1953 masterpiece Tokyo Story, was born in 1903 in the very city he depicted numerous times. He lived through dramatic social transformation in his country and played ...

When Eileen Yoon and Grace Zhang, both BFA Film ’20, attended a screening of Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu’s feature Late Spring as part of a course at Pratt, they had no idea it would alter the ...

Strictly speaking, Yasujirō Ozu is not a household name—at least not on this continent. While he enjoyed some international recognition in the 1950s and 60s, when a few of his works were first ...

Alcoholic and probably gay, looking like an American gangster in his early photos, Yasujirō Ozu nonetheless is the most quintessentially Japanese of filmmakers, though that may say as much about ...

Japan’s Tokyo Film Festival (TIFF) has revealed the official poster for its 2023 edition, which pays tribute to the country’s seminal filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu on the 120th anniversary of his birth.

Yasujirō Ozu’s 1929 Short Film ‘A Straightforward Boy’ Has Been Found. The silent comedy will screen at the Kyoto International Film and Art Festival. By Annakeara Stinson ...

Two of the most anticipated Japanese films releasing this year — Kei Ishikawa’s mystery drama A Man (2022) and a digitally remastered version of Yasujirō Ozu’s timeless classic A Hen in the ...

Blu-ray film review by Graham Rickson. Yasujirō Ozu began his directorial career began in 1927 but didn’t make a sound film until 1937, and 1932’s I Was Born, But… is notable for the paucity of ...