Yasujirō Ozu
Born: 1903-12-11 in Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Died: 1963-12-12
Known For: Directing
Biography
Yasujirō Ozu was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He began his career during the era of silent films. Ozu first made a number of short comedies, before turning to more serious themes in the 1930s. Marriage and family, especially the relationships between the generations, are prominent themes in Ozu's work. His most lauded films include Late Spring (1949), Tokyo Story (1953), Floating Weeds (1959), and An Autumn Afternoon (1962). His reputation has continued to grow since his death, and he is widely regarded as one of the world's most influential directors. In the 2012 Sight & Sound poll, Ozu's Tokyo Story was voted the greatest film of all time by world directors.
Filmography
2026
- Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025
- The Ozu Diaries as Self (archive footage)
2023
- Ozu ... (Original Story)
2016
- Lil’ Tokyo Story ... (Writer)
2003
- An Autumn Afternoon ... (Screenplay)
- Musume no kekkon ... (Original Film Writer)
1987
- Wings of Desire ... (In Memory Of)
1978
- Yasujiro Ozu and the Taste of Sake as Self (archive footage)
1965
- Danshun ... (Original Story)
- The Radish and the Carrot ... (Story)
1964
- Watashi-wa beretto ... (Script Supervisor)
1963
- Youth After School ... (Writer)
1962
- An Autumn Afternoon ... (Screenplay)
1961
- The End of Summer ... (Screenplay)
1960
- Late Autumn ... (Screenplay)
1959
- Good Morning ... (Director)
- Floating Weeds ... (Screenplay)
1958
- Equinox Flower ... (Director)
1957
- Tokyo Twilight ... (Director)
1956
- Early Spring ... (Director)
1955
- The Moon Has Risen ... (Screenplay)
1953
- Tokyo Story ... (Director)
1952
- The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice ... (Director)
1951
- Early Summer ... (Director)
1950
- The Munekata Sisters ... (Director)
1949
- Late Spring ... (Director)
1948
- A Hen in the Wind ... (Director)
1947
- Record of a Tenement Gentleman ... (Director)
1942
- There Was a Father ... (Director)
1941
- Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family ... (Director)
1937
- Unending Advance ... (Story)
- What Did the Lady Forget? ... (Director)
1936
- The Only Son ... (Director)
- The Lion Dance ... (Director)
- College Is a Nice Place ... (Director)
1935
- An Innocent Maid ... (Director)
- An Inn in Tokyo ... (Director)
1934
- A Story of Floating Weeds ... (Director)
- A Mother Should Be Loved ... (Director)
1933
- Dragnet Girl ... (Director)
- Woman of Tokyo ... (Director)
- Passing Fancy ... (Director)
1932
- I Was Born, But... ... (Idea)
- Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? ... (Director)
- Spring Comes from the Ladies ... (Director)
- Until the Day We Meet Again ... (Director)
1931
- Tokyo Chorus ... (Director)
- The Lady and the Beard ... (Director)
- The Sorrow of the Beautiful Woman ... (Director)
1930
- Walk Cheerfully ... (Director)
- A Primer on Marriage ... (Director)
- That Night's Wife ... (Director)
- I Flunked, But... ... (Director)
- Young Lady ... (Director)
- The Luck Which Touched the Leg ... (Director)
- The Revengeful Spirit of Eros ... (Director)
1929
- I Graduated, But... ... (Director)
- Treasure Mountain ... (Director)
- Days of Youth ... (Director)
- The Life of an Office Worker ... (Director)
- A Straightforward Boy ... (Director)
- Fighting Friends ... (Director)
1928
- Couple on the Move ... (Director)
- Physical Beauty ... (Director)
- Pumpkin ... (Director)
- Dreams of Youth ... (Director)
- Wife Lost ... (Director)
1927
- Sword of Penitence ... (Director)