Yasujirō Ozu — Director (50)

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Young Lady (1930) WikiData IMDb TMDB
お嬢さん
other title: お嬢さん / Mademoiselle …
Lost film. Two reporters find that they are repeatedly beaten to the scoop by a new female journalist, 'young miss'. They decide to team up with her to investigate a secret club for wealthy voyeurs. Considered to be a lost film.

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That NIght's Wife (1930) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
その夜の妻
★ 7.5 (6 ratings) director: 小津安二郎 actor: 冈田时彦 / 八云理惠子 …
other title: 那夜的妻子 / その夜の妻 …
In Depression-era Japan, a man commits a robbery to save his critically ill daughter and escapes with the funds, but complications arise.

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A Mother Should Be Loved (1934) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
母を恋はずや
★ 7.2 (8 ratings) director: 小津安二郎 actor: 笠智众 / 饭田蝶子 …
other title: 我们要爱母亲 / 母を恋はずや …
A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for always punishing him more severely than his stepsibling.

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An Inn in Tokyo (1935) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
東京の宿
★ 8.0 (7 ratings) director: 小津安二郎 actor: 坂本武
other title: 东京之宿 / 東京の宿 …
An unemployed Japanese man and his two sons wander the industrial flatlands of Depression-era Tokyo, until he chances upon an old friend and befriends a woman and her daughter, who are in a similar predicament.

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The Lion Dance (1936) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
鏡獅子
★ 6.1 (7 ratings) director: 小津安二郎 actor: 六代目尾上菊五郎 / 松永和楓 …
other title: 镜狮子 / 鏡獅子 …
This short documentary by Ozu was intended to present the artistry of kabuki dancer Kikugoro Onoe IV to both Japanese and foreign audiences. A voice-over narration introduces Kikugoro as well as the dance he performs in the film's second half, in which a young girl is transformed into a resplendent lion (the imagery of which apparently inspired Jean Cocteau as he conceived his own BEAUTY AND THE BEAST). Watching Kikugoro imitate the gestures of a demure maiden you see how he deserved his fame. Ozu shoots the performance in three simple set-ups: a roving frontal shot of the performers on stage, an angled shot from the side of the stage, and an angled longshot that acknowledges the presence of the audience in a way that is unmistakably Ozu.