Talk:Yasujirō Ozu

message: I would argue that this article is heavily influenced by Donald Richie's opinions concerning "mono no aware," which has been argued against by Bordwell, Kiju and Daisuke Miyao. Often this "zen buddhism" filming gives the wrong impression of Ozu, and can be seen as "orientalizing." More differing arguments and interpretations about subjects such as the low camera height and long-held shots of objects should be included in the next revision. Quotations can be found in the books that are listed as references, but I can supply them if help is needed.
209.2.51.215 19:30, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I believed that it is an agreed point among critics of his work, however it should be properly cited. BeShaMo (talk) 11:25, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Debate over Ozu's intentions and style 

message: There is an interesting discussion on Akira Kurosawa's talk page about Public Domain, (asserting that Kurosawa's work is not in PD), and it speculates that Ozu's work might be. Can anybody confirm of deny this? BeShaMo (talk) 17:40, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Public Domain? 

message: The "Legacy" section is too POV (see WP:NPOV). For example: "This style of filmmaking produced quiet and thoughtful films of rare beauty and elegance." I'll try to get around to fixing it up myself. -- The Fwanksta (talk) 01:52, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems much better now than it was in March. I've removed the tag you added, but replaced with a refimprov tag since that section clearly needs better sourcing. If someone feels there are still NPOV issues feel free to re-add that tag, but it looks all right to me. --Bigtimepeace | talk |  contribs 02:41, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it still needs a lot of work... it reads like someone just writing off the cuff... But I dislike tags anyway-- unnecessary graffiti when it's obvious there is work to be done on the article. But someone will get to it sooner or later. Dekkappai (talk) 02:45, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, there are still issues, but I don't think NPOV is exactly the problem. Presumably if sources were added the actual text would change somewhat and sound less "off the cuff" as is clearly the case now. --Bigtimepeace | talk |  contribs 02:54, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV

message: I'm reasonably sure that Kagamijishi is not a good transliteration of 菊五郎の鏡獅子. —Tamfang (talk) 06:23, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  romaji mismatch 

message: Let's not add any more directors to the list of diverse directors, it is getting a bit ridiculous. JoshuSasori (talk) 04:37, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: No, if the list becomes longer and longer, it becomes unreadable, and disrupts the purpose of the page, making an encyclopedia article about this director. It's already a silly list; if people want to discuss the influence of this director, they should explicitly say something about what influence he might have had, or something. JoshuSasori (talk) 22:37, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The sentence reads "Directors as diverse as Jim Jarmusch, Wim Wenders, Abbas Kiarostami,[12] Mike Leigh, Deepa Mehta, Aki Kaurismaki, Kiyoshi Kurosawa,[13] Alexander Payne,[14] Takeshi Kitano, and Pedro Costa have said that they were influenced by his films". Try to read that sentence. Do you notice anything? Yes, that's right, it's unreadable. Nobody can read this sentence and make sense of it. I am not saying "don't add any more directors" but "don't make this ridiculously long, unreadable sentence any longer or any more unreadable". It already needs rephrasing and I am tempted to remove about half the names. JoshuSasori (talk) 08:17, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

text: "No, I don't think it's unreadable. But if it really bothers you so much, rephrase it. Don't remove the names, especially if they have sources. You can find sources for the remainder and I'll do the same." - an ever-growing list of names is unreadable by normal human standards. "Removing them hastily just because you don't like how it is organised is not rationale. " - I am not suggesting removing the list but not adding any more names to it. I assure you that it is unreadable already, whether you agree with me or not. JoshuSasori (talk) 23:07, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

text: I don't find it unreadable - OK, well if you get bored of editing Wikipedia, you might want to read the phone book for its entertainment value. I'm not the one who has a problem with the status quo. So if you think there's a problem, I suggest you reorganise it yourself. - no, the problem I have is that the list of names of directors has continually been added to over the last few months, resulting in something which is already unreadable and likely to become bizarre if it gets any longer. For the sake of those eccentric people who don't derive great pleasure from reading the phone book, it would be much better to write something meaningful about how Ozu influenced the other directors, rather than hack even more things into an ever-growing list. I guess this discussion is just going to go on and on and on though. JoshuSasori (talk) 04:26, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

text: There is nothing in the above comment (dated 04:26, 24 July 2012) which is a "personal attack". It just points out that most people find long lists of names difficult to read, using reductio ad absurdum. JoshuSasori (talk) 10:01, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

text: No it isn't. JoshuSasori (talk) 23:04, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

text: No, it isn't, but perhaps you are trying to provoke me into making a personal attack. JoshuSasori (talk) 03:54, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Directors as diverse as... 

message: The JMDB puts him as a producer of Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji but article does not mention it. Any inputs???? JoshuSasori (talk) 03:05, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Producer 

message: Regarding the wikiproject box assessment at the top of this page, I think this article is better than C-class. I would like to request reassessment. Thank you. NotYourFathersOldsmobile (talk) 05:39, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  C class article? 

message: Judging using the first version available, ,
He did not use sound until 1936 or colour stock until 1958. His personal shot was one taken from only three or so feet from the ground, a viewpoint of a person on a tatami. He was also strongly in favour of static camerawork and careful composition where no single actor would dominate a scene.
I've marked this as "Use British English". NotYourFathersOldsmobile (talk) 09:03, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marked as British English 

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