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Yasujiro Ozu

Director, Actor

Films to Rent

 
Gangster Films, The: Three Silent Films by Yasujiro OzuGangster Films, The: Three Silent Films by Yasujiro Ozu (Walk Cheerfully, That Night's Wife, Dragnet Girl) (1930-1933)
Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Criterion collection of three silent crime films made by prolific Japanese director Ozu before his reputation for post–WWII domestic dramas was…
Late SpringLate Spring (1949) Aro Favourite
Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu
Ozu’s greatest film outside of the universally acclaimed TOKYO STORY magically distils the director’s reoccurring family concerns: that of a…
Early SummerEarly Summer (Bakushû) (1951) Recommended
Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Chikage Awashima
Another of dir. Ozu's majestic domestic dramas, this time concerning the inner–family conflicts over the spinsterhood of a daughter (Hara) and…
Flavour Of Green Tea Over Rice, TheFlavour Of Green Tea Over Rice, The (Ochazuke no aji) (1952) Recommended
Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Shin Saburi, Michiyo Kogure, Kōji Tsuruta
Dir. Ozu once again explores the subtleties of Japanese family life, this time drawing our attention to the struggles of those in arranged marriages…
Tokyo StoryTokyo Story (1953) Aro Favourite
Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara
The master of Japanese cinema, this is Ozu's masterpiece. An emotional tour–de–force is drawn from an elderly couple's ill–fated…
Floating WeedsFloating Weeds (Ukigusa) (1959) Recommended
Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Ganjiro Nakamura
An aging actor who returns with his troupe to his provincial town, and becomes caught between his long–lost family and his jealous…
Good MorningGood Morning (Ohayo) (1959)
Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Shimazu Masahiko, Koji Shidara, Chishu Ryu…
Ozu’s most accessible and scathing film amuses with its deceptively light–hearted tale of two boys’ vow of silence after being refused a…
End of Summer, TheEnd of Summer, The (Kohayagawa-ke no aki) (1961)
Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Ganjiro Nakamura, Setsuko Hara
Another intimate portrayal of Japanese family life from the dir. of TOKYO STORY that explores the breakdown of traditional family values in the face…
An Autumn AfternoonAn Autumn Afternoon (1962) Recommended
Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Chishu Ryu, Shiwa Iwashita, Keiji Sada
Dir. Ozu's final work is one of his best – an appropriately autumnal evocation of age and dependency, set around a widower who sorrowfully…

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