This is why one of his most underrated features is as simple as it gets while also being a profound masterpiece rooted in the ...

The series also includes a rarely screened 1995 Stephen Chow gross-out comedy, which speaks to that era’s preoccupation with ...

Throughout the history of cinema, drama films have taken the smaller-scale issues of everyday people and blown them up onto the big screen, creating something more universal out of what may seem to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

With ‘Ozu 120,’ Film Forum Offers a Three-Week Window Into the Great Japanese Director’s World. In terms of rhythm, editing, and composition, Ozu is utterly individual. ‘Tokyo Story’ is the place for ...

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.

One of the most famous scenes in Japanese cinema comes in Yasujirō Ozu's classic Tokyo Story. A young woman named Kyôko is grumbling to her radiantly noble sister-in-law Noriko about how badly ...

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 ...

Gunn previously revealed that Ozu was the inspiration for Krypto, explaining how he adopted Ozu (who is presumably named after Japanese director Yasujirō Ozu), with the pup's difficult ...

Film Heritage Foundation will also screen films by Akira Kurosawa, Yasujirō Ozu, Chantal Akerman and Billy Wilder ...