num_pages: 296
description: "Substantially the book that devotees of the director have been waiting a full-length critical work about Ozu's life, career and working methods, buttressed with reproductions of pages from his notebooks and shooting scripts, numerous quotes from co-workers and Japanese critics, a great many stills and an unusually detailed filmography."— Sight and SoundYasujiro Ozu, the man whom his kinsmen consider the most Japanese for all film directors, had but one major subject, the Japanese family, and but one major theme, its dissolution. The Japanese family in dissolution figures in every one of his fifty-three films. In his later pictures, the whole world exists in one family, the characters are family members rather than members of a society, and the ends of the earth seem no more distant than the outside of the house.
language: English
title: Ozu: His Life and Films
titlecomplete: Ozu: His Life and Films
genres: Biography, Asia, Media Tie In, Japan, Nonfiction, Japanese Literature, Art, Film
ratings_count: 238
publisher: University of California Press