Yasujiro Ozu
Best film(s) made before 1960?
I know we all have thirty second attention spans and think Hancock or Dark Knight is the greatest film ever, but I'm not looking for those answers. Please pick something by a master Director (i.e David Lean, Jean Renoir, Yasujiro Ozu), and, if you want, include foreign film(s). The list I like the most wins.
Casablanca
Rashomon
It's a Wonderful Life
Gentlemen's Agreement (1947)
The Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep
The Caine Mutiny
Mister Roberts
The Quiet Man
How Green Was My Valley
Arsenic and Old Lace
Gunga Din
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To Kill a Mockingbird - I know it's 1962, but I can't leave it out of any great films list!
I could add a dozen more, but I've gotta walk the dog...
Claire Denis on Yasujiro Ozu
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AHPC "The Munekata Sisers" Ozu Yasujiro,Tanaka Kinuyo, Hideko Takamine 1950 DVD $3.85 |
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AHPC " Tokyo Twicight " Yasujiro Ozu, Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu 1957 DVD NEW $3.85 |
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Tokyo Story (1953) DVD, SEALED!! Ozu Yasujiro $3.80 |
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SILENT OZU: THREE FAMILY COMEDIES Yasujiro Ozu - Criterion NEW SEALED DVDS!! $35.36 |
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AHPC "A Story of Floating Weeds" Yasujiro Ozu,Tomio Aoki,Choko Iida 1934 DVD NEW $3.85 |
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AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON Yasujiro Ozu - Criterion NEW SEALED DVD!! $23.62 |
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TOKYO STORY (1953) DVD (Sealed) ~ Yasujiro Ozu *BRAND NEW* $3.80 |
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LATE SPRING BY OZU,YASUJIRO (DVD) [2 DISCS] $36.64 |
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GOOD MORNING BY OZU,YASUJIRO (DVD) $29.16 |
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LATE OZU BY OZU,YASUJIRO (DVD) [5 DISCS] $61.23 |
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Passing Fancy , Ozu Yasujiro 1933 DVD $3.50 |
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TOKYO STORY - NEW DVD - HARA SETSUKO & OZU YASUJIRO JAPAN CLASSIC R3 $11.99 |
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Tokyo Story NEW PAL Classic DVD Yasujiro Ozu $22.99 |
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YASUJIRO OZU CRITERION COLLECTION 2 FILMS THE ONLY SON, THERE IS A FATHER 2 DISC $19.99 |
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SILENT OZU:THREE FAMILY COMEDIES BY OZU,YASUJIRO (DVD) [3 DISCS] $39.88 |
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AUTUMN AFTERNOON BY OZU,YASUJIRO (DVD) $29.16 |
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Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu: The Criterion Collection (The Only Son / There Was a $38.99 |
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Early Summer NEW PAL DVD Yasujiro Ozu $24.99 |
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The Record of a Tenement Gentleman , Ozu Yasujiro DVD $3.33 |
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The Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice,Yasujiro Ozu 1952DVD $3.50 |
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Tokyo Story (1953) Yasujiro Ozu (DVD) $18.95 |
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A story of Floating weeds 1934 [Yasujiro Ozu] DVD *NEW $3.80 |
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TOKYO STORY DVD Yasujiro Ozu Japan Japanese Film Drama $9.98 |
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A story of Floating weeds (1934) Yasujiro Ozu DVD *NEW $3.80 |
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THE MUNEKATA SISTERS by Yasujiro Ozu - rare DVD!!! $14.50 |
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The Only Son DVD Ozu Yasujiro 1936 Brand New Sealed $3.19 |
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There Was A father DVD Ozu Yasujiro 1942 New Sealed $3.19 |
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The Munekata Sister DVD Ozu Yasujiro 1950 New Sealed $3.19 |
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The Bro.s & Sis.s Of The Toda Family DVD Ozu Yasujiro $2.99 |
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Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice 1952 DVD New Yasujiro Ozu $2.99 |
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Musics for Yasujiro Ozu Films $30.49 ... |
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Ost $64.99 ... |
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YASUJIRO OZU GA AISHITA ONGAKU(2CD) $112.06 ... |
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Late Spring (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] $25.79 Contemporary look at everyday life in postwar Japan, centering on an elderly man's attempts to find a suitable husband for his reluctant daughter before it's "too late." Director Yasujiro Ozu's penchant for richly drawn character studies is well-evidenced; Chishu Ryu, Haruko Sugimura star. 108 min. Standard; Soundtrack: Japanese PCM mono; Subtitles: English; audio commentary. Also includes the doc... |
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Tokyo Story $2.99 ... |
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Tokyo Story (AKA Tokyo monogatari) (1953) $2.99 ... |
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Tokyo Story (The Criterion Collection) $20.98 An elderly couple leave their small town to visit their grown children in Tokyo, but receive a chilly reception and are welcomed only by a son's widow, in this moving drama by Yasujiro Ozu. Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama and Setsuko Hara star. 139 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: Japanese Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; interviews; documentary; featurette; theatrical trailer.... |
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Late Spring (The Criterion Collection) $24.98 Contemporary look at everyday life in postwar Japan, centering on an elderly man's attempts to find a suitable husband for his reluctant daughter before it's "too late." Director Yasujiro Ozu's penchant for richly drawn character studies is well-evidenced; Chishu Ryu, Haurko Sugimura star. 108 min. Standard; Soundtrack: Japanese Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English; audio commentary. Also includ... |
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EARLY SUMMER (BAKUSHU) DIRECTED BY YASUJIRO OZU (VHS TAPE- BEST FILM 1951 KINEMA JUNPO... |
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Transcendental Style In Film (Da Capo Paperback) $10.19 The acclaimed director of Mishima, American Gigolo, Hard Core, Blue Collar, Cat People also the screenwriter for Taxi Driver, Paul Schrader here analyzes the film style of three great directorsâYasajiro Ozu, Robert Bresson, Carl Dreyerâand posits a common dramatic language by these artists from divergent cultures. Unlike the style of psychological realism, which dominates film, the trans... |
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Tokyo Story: The Ozu/Noda Screenplay $14.09 Yasujiro Ozu's 1953 "Tokyo Story" is regularly rated among the top films ever made and will soon be reissued on DVD. Ozu and cowriter Kogo Noda viewed the script as literature; once completed, it was little changed during filming. Here is a translation of the Japanese screenplay to "Tokyo Story," with critical observations by Donald Richie on Ozu's filmmaking, a filmography, and twenty stills. Students of screenwriting will learn much from Ozu's lean approach, while film lovers will treasure this unique keepsake of a great cinematic achievement. Yasujiro Ozu (19031963) was one of Japan's greatest film directors. Kogo Noda (18931968), an influential screenwriter, was a frequent Ozu -collaborator. Donald Richie is the preeminent Western authority on Japanese film. |
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Late Ozu [Criterion Collection] [5 Discs] - Subtitle $59.99 Includes:Early Spring (1956) Tokyo Boshoku (1957) Equinox Flower (1958) Late Autumn (1960) Early Autumn (1961) Early Spring Like most of director Yasujiro Ozu's work, Early Spring is a deceptively simple family drama: a middle-aged office worker, bored with dreary routines of his job and his marriage, succumbs to a brief fling with the office flirt. His wife inevitably discovers his infidelity, but when he accepts a transfer to the country, she follows him to start their life anew. Ozu's ... |
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Tokyo Story $29.95 Synopsis: An elderly Japanese couple visit their busy children but are not treated with respect. Directed by Yasujiro Ozu. Format: DVD Color: Black and White Rating: Not Rated Genre: Drama Runtime: 139 Year: 1953 Director: Yasujiro Ozu |
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Silent Ozu: Three Family Comedies [Criterion Collection] [3 Discs] - $34.99 Includes:Tokyo No Gassho (1931) I Was Born, But... (1932) Passing Fancy (1933) Tokyo No Gassho Tokyo Chorus is a dark comedy about unemployment and family in prewar Japan. The film opens with a group of young men at their school graduation. After saying goodbye to their teacher, they are off into the working world. The story follows a single man and his difficulties at his job. He cannot avoid annoying his boss, a tempestuous man, and he's summarily fired. The remainder of the movie concerns his descent into unemployment and the pressure it puts on his family. In a wonderful scene, his wife discovers that he's sold her kimonos to buy food. She approaches him crying while he's playing with their children and the children draw her into their game which dries her tears. After a series of adventures, he finds another job and calm is restored to the family and their lives. Tokyo Chorus is famous for being the first film where Ozu consistently utilized a low-angle camera. ~ Brian Whitener, Rovi I Was Born, But... One of the last great Japanese silent films and one of director Yasujiro Ozu's first masterpieces, this gentle family comedy contrasts the complexities of adulthood with a child's innocence. Two young brothers, who are the unquestioned alpha-males of fellow classmates in their suburban Tokyo neighborhood, are outraged by their father's clownish and subservient behavior at his office. As the film progresses, the children come to accept that their father is not a great man, as they imagined, and in the process, they lose some of their innocence. Ozu reworked this film for his 1959 opus Ohayo. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi Passing Fancy No synopsis available. |
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Floating Weeds $14.95 Synopsis: The leader of a traveling acting troupe meets his former mistress and their illegitimate son. Directed by Yasujiro Ozu. Format: DVD Color: Color Rating: Not Rated Genre: Drama Runtime: 119 Year: 1959 Director: Yasujiro Ozu |
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Ozu's Tokyo Story $26 A collection of essays about Ozu's Tokyo Story. |
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Late Ozu $51.95 Format: DVD Rating: Not Rated Genre: Foreign Year: 2007 Release Date: 2007-06-12 |
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Late Spring $29.95 Synopsis: A widowed professor fakes an impending marriage to spur his adult daughter to get on with her life. Format: DVD Color: Black and White Rating: Not Rated Genre: Drama Runtime: 107 Year: 1949 Director: Yasujiro Ozu |
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Early Summer - Fullscreen Special $29.99 Writer/director Yasujiro Ozu combines two of his favorite themes--the culture clashes in modern Japan and the emergence of the independent Japanese woman--in Early Summer (Bakushu). Setsuko Hara plays a young woman of the post-war era who is promised in an arranged marriage. But too much has happened in the world and in the girl's own life to allow her to agree to this union without protest. The characters in Early Summer are neither remote historical personages nor distant foreigners. They are types as easily recognizable in Japan as in any country, and this commonality enhances the universal appeal of this austere film. Yasujiro Ozu collaborated on the script of Early Summer with Kogo Noda. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi |
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Good Morning - Subtitle $24.99 Yasujiro Ozu's Ohayo (Good Morning) is a comedy about a pair of boys who bring much trouble to their family and community by refusing to do very basic activities. The boys desire a television, but their father refuses. They are so insistent that the father eventually commands them to be quiet. They take him quite literally and refuse to speak at all, not even a typical polite morning greeting. Their impoliteness begins to weigh down both the family and the town as it goes against the ordered social structure of Japanese culture. The film is a remake of Ozu's earlier 1932 silent film I Was Born, But... ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi |
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Silent Ozu: Three Family Comedies $32.95 Format: DVD Rating: Not Rated Genre: Comedy Year: 2008 Release Date: 2008-04-22 |
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Late Spring - Fullscreen $34.99 Veteran Japanese writer/director Yasujiro Ozu's second postwar production was 1949's Late Spring or Banshun. Chisu Ryu plays another of Ozu's realistic middle-class types, this time a widower with a marriageable daughter. Not wishing to see the girl resign herself to spinsterhood, Ryu pretends that he himself is about to be married. The game plan is to convince the daughter that they'll be no room for her at home, thus forcing her to seek comfort and joy elsewhere. What makes this homey little domestic episode work is the rapport between Chisu Ryu and Setsuko Hara, who plays the daughter. Late Spring is no facile Hollywood farce; we like these people, believe in them, and wish them the best. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi |
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Late Spring - Fullscreen B&W Subtitle $34.99 Veteran Japanese writer/director Yasujiro Ozu's second postwar production was 1949's Late Spring or Banshun. Chisu Ryu plays another of Ozu's realistic middle-class types, this time a widower with a marriageable daughter. Not wishing to see the girl resign herself to spinsterhood, Ryu pretends that he himself is about to be married. The game plan is to convince the daughter that they'll be no room for her at home, thus forcing her to seek comfort and joy elsewhere. What makes this homey little domestic episode work is the rapport between Chisu Ryu and Setsuko Hara, who plays the daughter. Late Spring is no facile Hollywood farce; we like these people, believe in them, and wish them the best. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi |
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Five - Widescreen Subtitle $24.99 Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami pays homage to Yasujiro Ozu, the brilliant Japanese filmmaker whose spare but evocative style has been a major influence on Kiarostami's work, with this non-narrative visual experiment. Five features five extended single-shot sequences shot along a seashore, in which Kiarostami, through framing and subtle camera movement, finds different moods and feelings in each shot, lending them a personal and distinctive touch. Shot on digital video, Five was screened at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival shortly before opening in French theaters in the spring of that year. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi |
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Japanese Portraits $15.95 The private collections of longtime Japan resident Donald Richie capture the personalities of certain Japanese people—some famous, some unknown—with insight and humor. Richie, who considers himself a foreigner despite living in Japan for over 53 years, is a keen observer of human nature. In Japanese Portraits, he provides an elegant and perceptive vision of Japan through precise, intimate portraits of ordinary and extraordinary Japanese people. Portraits include such notable Japanese as acclaimed filmmakers Akira Kurowasa and Yasujiro Ozu, famed novelist Yukio Mishima, and celebrated actor Toshiro Mifune. |
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Japanese Portraits: Pictures of Different People; A Series of Intensely Personal Portraits of Unforgettable Japanese Characters $16.9 The private collections of longtime Japan resident Donald Richie capture the personalities of certain Japanese people--some famous, some unknown--with insight and humor. Richie, who considers himself a foreigner despite living in Japan for over 53 years, is a keen observer of human nature. In "Japanese Portraits, " he provides an elegant and perceptive vision of Japan through precise, intimate portraits of ordinary and extraordinary Japanese people. Portraits include such notable Japanese as acclaimed filmmakers Akira Kurowasa and Yasujiro Ozu, famed novelist Yukio Mishima, and celebrated actor Toshiro Mifune. |
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A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day $19.37 This important work fills the need for a reasonably priced yet comprehensive volume on major directors in the history of Japanese film. With clear insight and without academic jargon, Jacoby examines the works of over 150 filmmakers to uncover what makes their films worth watching. Included are artistic profiles of everyone from Yutaka Abe to Isao Yukisada, including masters like Kinji Fukasaku, Juzo Itami, Akira Kurosawa, Takashi Miike, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, and Yoji Yamada. Each entry includes a critical summary and filmography, making this book an essential reference and guide. UK-based Alexander Jacoby is a writer and researcher on Japanese film. |
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Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer, by Schrader $13.5 This book is in New - Excellent condition |
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Caf? Lumiere - $14.99 A freelance writer living in Tokyo defies social taboo by choosing life as a single mother in director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's meditative tribute to acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu. When Yoko announces that she is pregnant and has no intentions of marrying the father of her child, her traditional family is outraged. Though the headstrong decision made by the young mother-to-be leaves her finding little sympathy from within her family circle, a blossoming friendship with the owner of a local second-hand bookstore goes a long way in alleviating Yoko's feelings of loneliness. As Yoko begins to re-evaluate her increasingly complicated life, her newfound friend silently pines for her despite his frustrating inability to vocalize his true feelings. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi |
