num_pages: 415
description: Over the last two decades, Yasujiro Ozu has won international recognition as a major filmmaker. Combining biographical information with discussions of the films' aesthetic strategies and cultural significance, David Bordwell questions the popular image of Ozu as the traditional Japanese artisan and examines the aesthetic nature and functions of his cinema.
language: English
title: Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema
titlecomplete: Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema
genres: Criticism, Film, Japan, Media Tie In, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 106
publisher: Princeton University Press