Yasujirō Ozu (小津 安二郎, Ozu Yasujirō, 12 December 1903 – 12 December 1963) was a prominent Japanese film director and (sometimes under the name James Maki) script writer. He is known for his distinctive technical style, developed during the silent era. Marriage and family, especially the...
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Late Spring
Late Spring (晩春, Banshun) is a critically acclaimed black-and-white Japanese film drama, directed by Yasujirō Ozu (1903–1963), first released in Japan in September 1949. Based on the short novel Father and Daughter (Chichi to musume) by Kazuo...
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- 1949
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- 1 h 48 min
Tokyo Story
Tokyo Story (東京物語, Tōkyō Monogatari) is a 1953 Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. It tells the story of an aging couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their grown children. The film contrasts the behavior of their biological children, who are too...
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- 1953
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- 2 h 16 min
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Equinox Flower
Equinox Flower (彼岸花, Higanbana) is a 1958 color Japanese film directed by Yasujiro Ozu. It is Yasujiro Ozu's first film in color while Japan's first color film, Keisuke Kinoshita's Carmen Comes Home, had been released in 1951. The film is based on a...
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- 1958
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- 1 h 58 min
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Early Summer
Early Summer (麦秋, Bakushū) is a 1951 film by Yasujiro Ozu. Like most of Ozu's post-war films, Early Summer deals with many issues ranging from communication problems between generations and the rising role of women in post-war Japan.
Noriko lives...
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- Oct 3, 1951
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- 2 h 15 min
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Tea Over Rice
Tea Over Rice or The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (お茶漬けの味, Ochazuke no aji) is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Yasujiro Ozu about a wealthy middle-aged couple (played by Shin Saburi and Michiyo Kogure) who have marital difficulties. The story...
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- 1952
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- 1 h 55 min
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Early Spring
Early Spring (早春, sōshun) is a 1956 film by Yasujiro Ozu about a married office worker (Ryō Ikebe) who has a fling with a typist, a fellow commuter, and the fallout that ensues with his friends and wife (Chikage Awashima). The film stars Keiko Kishi...
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- 1956
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- 2 h 24 min
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Floating Weeds
Floating Weeds (浮草, Ukigusa) is a 1959 film by Yasujiro Ozu and shot in colour by Kazuo Miyagawa, one of Japan's most highly regarded cinematographers. It is a remake of Ozu's own black-and-white silent film A Story of Floating Weeds (1934).
Early...
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- 1959
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- 1 h 59 min
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Good Morning
Good Morning (お早よう, Ohayō) is a 1959 comedy film by Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu. It is a loose remake of his own 1932 silent film I Was Born, But..., and one of only six films that Ozu made in color.
The film takes place in suburban Tokyo, and...
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- 1959
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- 1 h 34 min
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Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (戸田家の兄妹, Toda-ke no kyōdai) is a 1941 Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu.
The upper-class Toda family celebrates the 69th birthday of their father with a commemorative photoshoot at their outdoor garden....
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- 1941
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- 1 h 45 min
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An Autumn Afternoon
An Autumn Afternoon (秋刀魚の味, Sanma no aji, "The Taste of Mackerel Pike") is a 1962 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. It stars Ozu regular Chishu Ryu as the patriarch of the Hirayama family who oversees the wedding of his daughter, played...
Initial release date:
- Nov 18, 1962
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Runtime:
- 2 h 13 min
A Story of Floating Weeds
A Story of Floating Weeds (浮草物語, Ukikusa monogatari) is a 1934 silent film directed by Yasujiro Ozu which he later remade as Floating Weeds in 1959 in color.
The film starts with a travelling kabuki troupe arriving by train at a provincial seaside...
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- 1934
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- 1 h 58 min
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I Was Born But...
I Was Born, But... (大人の見る絵本 生れてはみたけれど, Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo lit. An Adult's Picture Book View - I Was Born, But...) is a 1932 black-and-white Japanese silent film directed by Yasujiro Ozu. It became the first of six Ozu films...
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- 1932
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Runtime:
- 1 h 40 min
The Record of a Tenement Gentleman
The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (長屋紳士録, Nagaya shinshiroku, A Who's Who of the Tenement) is a Japanese film written and directed by Yasujiro Ozu in 1947. The film was Ozu's first after World War II and his longest production drought of five years...
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- May 20, 1947
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- 1 h 12 min
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Late Autumn
Late Autumn (秋日和, Akibiyori , lit. "A Calm Autumn Day") is a 1960 drama film directed by Yasujiro Ozu. It stars many of his favourite actors including Setsuko Hara and Chishu Ryu. It is based on a story by Ton Satomi.
Late Autumn follows the...
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- Nov 13, 1960
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- 2 h 8 min
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Tokyo Chorus
Tokyo Chorus (東京の合唱, Tokyo no kôrasu) is a 1931 silent film produced by Shochiku Company, directed by Yasujirō Ozu and starring Tokihiko Okada and Emiko Yagumo. It was based on various stories in the Shoshimin-gai (Middle Class Avenue) series and...
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- 1931
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- 1 h 30 min
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Days of Youth
Days of Youth (学生ロマンス 若き日, Gakusei romance: Wakaki hi, 1929) is a Japanese comedy film directed by Yasujiro Ozu. It is the oldest known surviving film by the director. The film tells of two friends from a university (played by Ichirô Yuki and Tatsuo...
Initial release date:
- Apr 13, 1929
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Runtime:
- 1 h 43 min
The End of Summer
The End of Summer (小早川家の秋, Kohayagawa-ke no aki, lit. "Autumn for the Kohayagawa family") is a 1961 film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. It was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival. The film was his penultimate film; only An Autumn...
Initial release date:
- Oct 29, 1961
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Runtime:
- 1 h 43 min
Tokyo Twilight
Tokyo Twilight (東京暮色, Tōkyō boshoku) is a 1957 film by Yasujirō Ozu. The film is considered amongst Ozu's darkest postwar films.
Akiko Sugiyama (Ineko Arima) is a young college graduate girl learning English shorthand. Her elder sister Takako ...
Initial release date:
- Apr 30, 1957
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Runtime:
- 2 h 20 min
A Hen in the Wind
A Hen in the Wind (風の中の牝鶏, Kaze no naka no mendori) is a 1948 drama film directed by Yasujiro Ozu, starring Kinuyo Tanaka and Shûji Sano.
The film is set in immediate postwar Japan, Tokyo. Tokiko (Kinuyo Tanaka), a twenty-nine-year-old mother of a...
Initial release date:
- 1948
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Runtime:
- 1 h 24 min
Sword of Penitence
Sword of Penitence (Zange no yaiba) is a 1927 Japanese silent film by Yasujirō Ozu. It is the first film directed by Ozu and was also the first of his many collaborations with screenwriter Kogo Noda.
The film is the first that Ozu made after being...
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- Oct 14, 1927
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Passing Fancy
Passing Fancy (出来ごころ, Dekigokoro) is a 1933 silent movie produced by Shochiku Company, directed by Japanese director Yasujirō Ozu and starring Takeshi Sakamoto, Nobuko Fushimi, Den Obinata and Chouko Iida.
Ozu regular Chishu Ryu has a small cameo...
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- 1933
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Runtime:
- 1 h 41 min
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An Inn in Tokyo
An Inn in Tokyo (東京の宿, Tokyo no yado) is a 1935 silent film directed by Yasujiro Ozu. The film is Ozu's last extant silent film.
The script of the film is credited to a person by the name of Uinzato Mone, which means in Japanese, "Without Money". In...
Initial release date:
- 1935
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Runtime:
- 1 h 20 min
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The Only Son
The Only Son (ひとり息子, Hitori musuko) is a 1936 film directed by Yasujiro Ozu, starring Chouko Iida and Shinichi Himori. The film was Ozu's first "talkie" (sound film) feature.
The film starts in the rural town of Shinshū in 1923. A widow, Tsune (O...
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- 1936
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Runtime:
- 1 h 27 min
What Did the Lady Forget?
What Did the Lady Forget? (淑女は何を忘れたか, Shukujo wa nani wo wasureta ka) is a 1937 Japanese film directed by Yasujiro Ozu.
Komiya (Tatsuo Saito) is an affluent, respected and good-natured professor of medicine at a Tokyo university. He has a wife,...
Initial release date:
- May 4, 1990
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Runtime:
- 1 h 11 min
There Was a Father
There Was a Father is a 1942 Japanese film directed by Yasujiro Ozu.
Yasujiro Ozu wrote the first draft of There Was a Father before he went to China in 1937. On returning for Japan, he re-wrote it again and feeling that "it could still be improved"...
Initial release date:
- Apr 1, 1942
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Runtime:
- 1 h 34 min
Soshun
Soshun is a 1956 film directed by Yasujiro Ozu.
Initial release date:
- 1956
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Runtime:
- 2 h 29 min
Dragnet Girl
Dragnet Girl is a 1933 Japanese Gangster film directed by Yasujirô Ozu. The film tells the story of a gangster and his girl finding redemption through the actions of an innocent girl.
Initial release date:
- Apr 27, 1933
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Runtime:
- 1 h 40 min
