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1.Early Summer starring: Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Chikage Awashima, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirô Sugai directed by: Yasujiro Ozu June 13, 2000
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Early Summer (Bakushû) is the middle entry in what has been called director Yasujiro Ozu's Noriko Trilogy (bookended by Late Spring and Tokyo Story). All three films feature women named Noriko (all played by Setsuko Hara), who are without husbands, and embroiled in family dramas. The names of many of the other major characters recur in the trilogy, as well, which gives the films a feeling of almost being alternate world versions of each other- ala the way comic books have `canonical' superhero tales, and those set in alternate universes. Released in 1951, the 124 minute black and white film was written by Ozu and his co-writer Kôgo Noda, and is every bit as great a film as its two more celebrated companion pieces. The film featured many of Ozu's actors from the two other films, and in many ... Read More

2.Good Morning (AKA Ohayo) starring: Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Chishu Ryu, Kuniko Miyake, Haruko Sugimura directed by: Yasujiro Ozu June 06, 2000
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Of the Big Three Japanese film directors from last century, who were known in the West, Kenji Mizoguchi, Akira Kurosawa, and Yasujiro Ozu, Ozu is by far the least well known, and this is because he was probably the least technically innovative of the troika. But, that is not the same as saying he was the least accomplished. In fact, his 1959 social comedy of manners, Good Morning (Ohayo), set in a modern Tokyo suburban subdivision, is in many ways far more relevant than the more famed period pieces the other directors made, for it has a definite Western sensibility. Ozu seemed to be obsessed with documenting history, but history as it was lived, not re-imagined. He was acutely aware of his role as a social documentarian, if in a fictive sense. It was also his third color film, and on the surface ... Read More

3.An Autumn Afternoon starring: Chishu Ryu, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada, Mariko Okada, Teruo Yoshida directed by: Yasujiro Ozu November 11, 1998
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The last work from revered filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu is a surprising delight, at once a summation of the family dramas that dominated his postwar career and a celebration of his quiet artistry. It's a movie that doesn't call attention to itself and even goes as far as lifting entire sequences from his previous films. At the same time, this 1962 drama is not so much a re-telling of the same stories (co-written with longtime collaborator Kôgo Noda) as it is a re-evaluation of the same dramatic themes that inform the director's work since Late Spring, his 1949 classic to which this film bears the strongest resemblance. Ozu aficionados will find all his familiar, idiosyncratic touches here - the elliptical narrative, the observational view of the characters from the outside, the thoughtfully composed shots, and ... Read More

4.Floating Weeds starring: Ganjiro Nakamura, Machiko Kyô, Haruko Sugimura, Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi directed by: Yasujiro Ozu June 06, 2000
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I love the visual of this movie. It's perfect. Everybody see it. I would give this movie as a gift for people who like colors.

5.Equinox Flower starring: Shin Saburi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ineko Arima, Yoshiko Kuga, Keiji Sada directed by: Yasujiro Ozu November 11, 1998
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Hirayama Wataru ' s family, a businessman is formed by his wife Kiyoko, his daughters Setsuko and Hisako. Hikayama pities of Fumiko, the only daughter of his friend Mikami, who without the consent of their parents decides to live with her lover. At the same time he disagrees when his daughter Setsuko request his consent to marry with Taniguchi. After Setsuko ` s wedding, Hirayama adopts a cold and distant attitude respect his daughter, and a beloved friend of his daughter will be the indicated to solicit a major attention for her, flying to Hiroshima trying to make the paces. The most important feature of Ozu resides in the universality of his concerns. As you know the genius is always contemporary, so that 's why this picture retains that peculiar actuality through the years in spite the ... Read More

6.Late Spring starring: Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Haruko Sugimura, Hohi Aoki directed by: Yasujiro Ozu November 11, 1998
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If one were to think of an equivalent to the film style of director Yasujiro Ozu it would have to be long novels suffused with detail, but never superfluous detail. Books such as Herman Melville's Moby-Dick- with its descriptions of the whaling industry and vessels, John Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath- with its detailed rendering of the lives of migrant workers, and especially Betty Smith's A Tree Grows In Brooklyn- with its child-like view of a world that overwhelms fresh senses, come to mind, even though the film checks in at a mid-length range of an hour and forty-eight minutes. Ozu's cinema is utterly shorn of melodrama, for all that occurs within its frames advances some aspect of narrative, character development, or social commentary. Yet, some of the most affecting scenes in the whole of his 1949 film, Late Spring ... Read More

7.Tokyo Story starring: Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Sô Yamamura, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura directed by: Yasujiro Ozu March 20, 2001
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If you've read anything of the description, you'll know the story doesn't appear to have any fascinating elements to it for someone who is perhaps 25 years old or younger. But if you have experienced death of a parent, or the awkwardness of dealing with grown siblings, or even dealing with embarrassing parental behavior---there is something here for you. In addition, if you are at all a History Channel buff, there is the added attraction of seeing life in postwar Japan, and what the middle-class there were doing while we were having our baby boom and moving to our "little boxes" in the suburbs. I like to look at the clothes and also see a society in a major transition while still having the influence (still felt) from American occupation. Plus if you are interested in religious and social practices, the funeral in the film is moving, and ... Read More

8.I Was Born, But... starring: Tatsuo Saito, Tomio Aoki, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Hideo Sugawara, Takeshi Sakamoto directed by: Yasujiro Ozu October 12, 1999
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Everything everybody here has said about these superb silent movies is true. Beyond that, these fine films show that silent Japanese films were every bit as good as our American movies then, and that the values, natures and problems in Japan and America then were pretty much the same. (Of course I've haven't yet run into a Chaplain, Keaton or Laurel and Hardy in Japanese silent films. But Oza certainly measures up to our best directors, then and now.) I expect our societies and arts today are very parallel too. People is people, times are times. Zen-sekai no."

9.Record of a Tenement Gentleman starring: Chouko Iida, Hohi Aoki, Eitarô Ozawa, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Reikichi Kawamura directed by: Yasujiro Ozu November 11, 1998
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This particular gem of Ozu's is set very soon after the war and things are pretty tough for most of the population, but for lost little boys things are difficult indeed. One little boy is blessed though by being brought back to a small community of neighbors in a "tenement". Though at first he is seen only as a hindrance and one more mouth to feed, the awakening to how hard people have become and how selfish in their quest for survival helps one particularly hardcase of a lady learn that a little shared with love becomes a lot more. Ozu's gentle ways will always make me smile.

10.Tokyo Story starring: Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, Sô Yamamura directed by: Yasujiro Ozu
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If you've read anything of the description, you'll know the story doesn't appear to have any fascinating elements to it for someone who is perhaps 25 years old or younger. But if you have experienced death of a parent, or the awkwardness of dealing with grown siblings, or even dealing with embarrassing parental behavior---there is something here for you. In addition, if you are at all a History Channel buff, there is the added attraction of seeing life in postwar Japan, and what the middle-class there were doing while we were having our baby boom and moving to our "little boxes" in the suburbs. I like to look at the clothes and also see a society in a major transition while still having the influence (still felt) from American occupation. Plus if you are interested in religious and social practices, the funeral in the film is moving, and you may ... Read More

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