Word: yasujiro
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...times Rohmer dipped into the past, for The Marquise of O, Perceval and his final work, Romance of Astree and Celadon, but he's best remembered for his lighter films and their scrupulous devotion to the wiles and smiles of women. He ranked with George Cukor, Ingmar Bergman and Yasujiro Ozu as a director, appreciator and avid anatomizer of the opposite sex. And his actresses were young beguilers who bloomed under his lens...
...What film directors have inspired your work? Alan Eggleston, Grand Rapids, Mich. Thousand Years was very much influenced by a Japanese director called [Yasujiro] Ozu. Princess of Nebraska is a tribute to the French New Wave - to directors like Jean-Luc Godard...
...highbrow literature, and Nonami's streamlined prose is arguably not up to her prizewinning best. But this pulpy family psychodrama is hugely entertaining - like watching some filmed version of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test from an adapted screenplay by Mario Puzo and directed by Yasujiro Ozu. And it's not just grotesque fantasy. Now You're One of Us, which was originally published in 1993, as divorce rates in Japan were soaring, is also high-wire social commentary. It's a parodic rebuke of traditional cultural attitudes that subsume individual welfare for the sake of a family unit...
...STORY OF FLOATING WEEDS and FLOATING WEEDS, Yasujiro...
Although no less eminent than Yasujiro Ozu or Akira Kurosawa in the canon of Japanese cinema, director Mikio Naruse has remained largely unknown to mainstream Western audiences...