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...achieved only a modest and limited release last year. Yet his style, even at first glance, is arrestingly original. The camera seldom moves; the angle of view is virtually constant. Ozu fixes his camera at slightly above floor level, almost in a reflective posture, observing everything as if from tatami (floor mats). "It is the attitude for watching, for listening," Film Historian Donald Richie has written, "the attitude of the haiku master who sits in silence and with an almost painful accuracy observes cause and effect, reaching essence through an extreme simplification...
...single workers can rent space in Toyota's tatami dormitory for as little as $2 a month. If married, employees are eligible for company apartments, which cost between $3 and $17; commissaries sell food at a 10% discount. A worker who wants to buy his own home can borrow money from the company...
...Tatami Mates. In a study of parentally arranged marriages near Shulin, Taiwan, Stanford Anthropologist Arthur P. Wolf found two distinct patterns of premarital behavior. In the so-called major form of marriage, which the villagers considered proper, the future partners had little or no contact as children, and the bride did not enter her husband's home until the marriage actually took place. In the minor system, which was considered less proper, the girl was taken to the prospective husband's household as an infant or young child, and they were reared as brother and sister until...
...Wirtz, 54, and his wife Mary left the rest of the gang at the doors of their Western-style rooms in Kyoto's elegant Miyako Hotel and headed for the Japanese wing. Beds are all very comfy at home, but when in Japan do as the ... A thin tatami mat, please, and they couldn't be more comfortable stretched right out there on the floor. "It feels wonderful and is very good to our spines," insisted Mary. Willard looked inscrutable...
...pebble makes ripples in a pond. And for earnest moviegoers, Ozu's refined camera technique is a revelation in itself, for he avoids the customary fades and dissolves, shoots every scene from a few feet above the floor, the approximate viewpoint of a neighbor kneeling on a tatami mat. It is an amiable posture, altogether appropriate for one of the world's most contemplative film poets...