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The huge level of activity of 1960s Japanese cinema also resulted in many classics.

Akira Kurosawa directed the 1961 classic Yojimbo.

Yasujirō Ozu made his final film, An Autumn Afternoon, in 1962.

Mikio Naruse directed the wide screen melodrama When a Woman Ascends the Stairs in 1960 ; his final film was 1967's Scattered Clouds.