A Yasujiro Ozu film is instantly exhilarating because of the tension between his rigorously economic style, with its profoundly evocative images, and his warm compassion for the Japanese.

Ozu’s protagonists were small and private, selfish and scared. What his films lacked in taut suspense and technical flourishes was more than made up for in pure, powerful feeling.

Legendary director Yasujiro Ozu’s rigorously spare style was often marked by long, slow takes -- the camera set at the eye level of a person sitting on the tatami matting that cover the floors ...

Turner Classic Movies acquired Oscar-nominated director Daniel Raim's documentary 'The Ozu Diaries' on Japanese film master Yasujiro Ozu.

Ozu Yasujirō, director of the 1953 masterpiece Tokyo Story, was born in 1903 in the very city he depicted numerous times. He lived through dramatic social transformation in his country and played ...

Yasujirō Ozu, who directed classics like Late Spring, Early Summer, & Tokyo Story, boasts an impressive number of movies with 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Film director Ozu Yasujirō died on December 12, 1963―his sixtieth birthday. Over the course of the 50 years that have passed since then, numerous attempts have been made to interpret his works ...

The great Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu made movies that sneak up on you with their shrewd delicacy. From the late 1940s onward—Ozu died of cancer in 1963—virtually all of his plots were ...

Ozu never married and, excepting three compulsory stints in the military, lived almost his whole life with his mother, who died the year before him.

James Gunn tells PEOPLE about how his rescue dog Ozu inspired the new Superman movie, specifically the superhero's canine, a fluffy, white dog named Krypto ...