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 ...

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 ...

Ozu’s protagonists were small and private, selfish and scared. What his films lacked in taut suspense and technical flourishes was more than made up for in pure, powerful feeling.

Located on a quiet stretch of coastline just outside of Tokyo, the traditional tranquility of Chigasaki-kan has played host to everyone from Yasujirō Ozu to Hirokazu Kore-eda.

Is there another movie director who is as uniformly beloved as Yasujirō Ozu (1903-63)? Ozu’s films touch upon core human truths with rare deftness and humility, with an understanding that we are ...

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.

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 ...

Yasujiro Ozu's 1929 short film 'A Straightforward Boy' has been found and will screen at the Kyoto International Film and Art Festival.

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 surtitles, Ozu telling an emotionally complex ...