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A Guide to Yasujirō Ozu, Japan’s Master of the Domestic Drama
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As a new season at the BFI spotlights the director’s work, we look into six of Yasujirō Ozu’s restrained dramas, from Tokyo Story to Floating Weeds
TextJames Balmont
Across the entire landscape of global cinema, few directors retain such high regard as Japan’s Yasujirō Ozu, whose restrained dramas – centring on family, marriage, and generational divide in an era of widespread change – would become the pillars of the country’s cinematic golden age.
In September 2023, to mark the 120th anniversary of his birth, his legacy will be celebrated at the BFI Southbank and online via the BFI Player – with A Family Affair: The Films of Yasujirō Ozu, offering a month-long retrospective of the auteur’s powerful and poignant masterworks.
Famed for gentle works about everyday characters and quotidian life, Ozu was also renowned for a remarkably austere film grammar that has rarely been