Word: yasujiro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...polls that show that 80% of all Japanese prefer not to leave home to see a movie. As a result, some 5,000 of Japan's 7,500 movie houses have been closed or converted into bowling alleys and supermarkets. Time was when the great Japanese directors like Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa were winning film festivals all over the world with movies like An Autumn Afternoon, Rashomon and Seven Samurai. Today Kurosawa has priced himself out of the local market...
...Yasujiro Ouzu's Autumn Afternoon (sometimes titled The Taste of Mackerel) is, quite, simply, a masterpiece. Its muted color and rigorously simple camerawork are consistently a joy to watch, and its emotional insight into post-war Japan is consistently moving. Little more could be said without delving into the intricate simplicity of this wonderful film...
Autumn Afternoon. Directed by Yasujiro Ozu, his 53rd and final film, made in 1963 and released here for the first time this year. It is a profoundly simple movie about an aged widower hanging onto and inhibiting an only daughter who has reached marriageable age. An older Japanese culture of tradition and ceremony is giving way before a newer Japan caught up in a mad scramble for things: golf clubs, refrigerators handbags. It is a realized testament to the Ozu art (Tokyo Story is the best known of his films); the still camera hugs the floor, the rhythmed sound...
...AUTUMN AFTERNOON. Yasujiro Ozu's last film, made in 1963: a serene, masterly speculation on the encroachments...
Autumn Afternoon. 1963. Directed by Yasujiro Ozu, his 53rd and final film. A profoundly simple film about an aged widower hanging on to an only daughter who has reached marriageable age. The old Japanese culture of tradition and ceremony is giving way before the Japan of its sons caught up in a scramble for things--golf clubs, refrigerators, hand-bags. It is a fully realized testament to the Ozu art; the still camera hugs the floor, the rhythmed sound and patterned surfaces give to his subjects the dignity due them. Harvard Square Cinema...