Ozu: His Life and Films

By Donald Richie

Book Overview

Yasujiro Ozu, the man whom his kinsmen consider the most Japanese for all film directors, had but one major subject, the Japanese family, and but one major theme, its dissolution. The Japanese family in dissolution figures in every one of his fifty-three films. In his later pictures, the whole world exists in one family, the characters are family members rather than members of a society, and the ends of the earth seem no more distant than the outside of the house.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520024451
• ISBN13: 9780520024458
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.