Few filmmakers have captured raw family dynamics in motion as wonderfully as Yasujiro Ozu. Throughout his career, he solidified himself as a simplistic yet superb storyteller with an appealing aesthetic style while also capturing the societal climate of Japan at the time. In the later years of his career, with the jump from black-and-white to color, Ozu primarily did reimaginings of his previous features, some straight-up remade. The most obvious example is his gem “Floating Weeds,” a remake of his earlier work “A Story of Floating Weeds.” Yet even with the reinstating of familiar elements in his later projects, he still added unique aspects to them while having said films stand on their own merits. As a perfect example, familiarity and freshness are present in his beautiful swan song “An Autumn Afternoon.”
This would be Yasujiro Ozu’s final film which would be released in late 1962. A year later, he passed away on December 12th,...
This would be Yasujiro Ozu’s final film which would be released in late 1962. A year later, he passed away on December 12th,...
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