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...April 2, the HFA screened Tokyo Story, Ozu’s best known film, to open the series. The film was introduced by executives from Shochiku, many of whom shared personal anecdotes and memories of Ozu, who died in 1987. Since this first screening, his works have been screened in roughly chronological order, from his silent films about young college students to his later, more lyrical meditations on family and aging...
...film to close the series and the last film that Ozu made before his death in 1987, An Autumn Afternoon (Samma no Aji) will screen on May 11. The film will be introduced by Japanese New Wave director Masahiro Shinoda, whose wife, Shima Iwashita, plays the role of the wife in Autumn Afternoon. The year it was made, the film won the Kinema Jumpo prize in Japan, an honor roughly analogous to the best picture Oscar in America...
Three years in a row during the 1930s, the prize went to Ozu, who eventually went on to become the winner of the most Kinema Jumpo Best Picture prizes of any director. Assistant Professor in Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) J.D. Connor ’92 explains that although Ozu was so successful in Japan and such an admirer of American cinema, his arrival on the American film scene is a comparatively recent phenomenon...
...Ozu stayed silent longer than his contemporaries, and Connor points out that his silent films were not readily available in 35 mm, their preferred viewing format, until recently. Furthermore, a great deal of his sound work hadn’t been subtitled properly, so Shochiku’s job of striking new prints was deeply appreciated by professors and fans alike...
...Ozu had a silent film set at Shochiku that he didn’t want to give up, a silent film cameraman he had a contract with, and didn’t have a definitive vision of how he wanted dialogue to work. He waited until he felt it was right and began using sound in 1936 with The Only Son (Hitori Musuko...