We, or they, have canonized Yasujiro Ozu. If you’re 15 and tentatively adopting the moniker “cinephile,” he’s on the list, and you must watch his work, at least Tokyo Story (1952). The trouble is that ...
An Autumn Afternoon (1962) is a feel-good black-and-white Japanese family drama film. Directed and written by iconic Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu, the captivating plot revolves around a widower and ...
In the early 60's in Tokyo, the widower Hirayama is a former captain from the Japanese navy that works as a manager of a factory and lives with his twenty-four year-old daughter Michiko and his son ...