Some of the most critically acclaimed drama films in Asian cinema were produced during the 1950s, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu ( 1954 ), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon ( 1950 ), Ikiru ( 1952 ) and Seven Samurai ( 1954 ).

Many of the most critically acclaimed Asian films of all time were produced during this decade, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) and The Music Room ( 1958 ), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu ( 1954 ) and Sansho the Bailiff ( 1954 ), Raj Kapoor's Awaara ( 1951 ), Mikio Naruse's Floating Clouds ( 1955 ), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ) and Kaagaz Ke Phool ( 1959 ), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon ( 1950 ), Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Throne of Blood ( 1957 ).

During Japanese cinema's ' Golden Age ' of the 1950s, successful films included Rashomon ( 1950 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and The Hidden Fortress ( 1958 ) by Akira Kurosawa, as well as Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ) and Ishirō Honda's Godzilla ( 1954 ).

Ozu's story, based on the American films Kick In and Hoodman Blind, was dramatized by Kogo Noda, who would become his co-writer for the rest of his career.

This is typical of Ozu's films.

Ozu's Tokyo Story has appeared several times in the Sight & Sound poll of best films selected by critics and directors.

He co-wrote thirteen of Ozu's fifteen postwar films.

While Imamura's films were to have a quite different style from Ozu's, Imamura, like Ozu, was to focus on what he saw as particularly Japanese elements of society in his films.

It is often regarded as Ozu's masterpiece, and has appeared several times in the British Film Institute lists of the greatest films ever made.

Like all of Ozu's sound films, Tokyo Storys pacing is slow.

Like most of Ozu's post-war films, Early Summer deals with many issues ranging from communication problems between generations and the rising role of women in post-war Japan.

She is best known for her performance in Yasujirō Ozu's films Late Spring ( 1949 ) and Tokyo Story ( 1953 ).

From 1928 to 1992 he appeared in at least 155 films, including Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ) and Yoshitaro Nomura's Castle of Sand ( 1974 ).

The credits of the film are placed before a backdrop of painted fronds instead of the sackcloth used in Ozu's films since A Story of Floating Weeds in 1934.

Cultural reasons were also a factor in countries like China and Japan, where silents co-existed successfully with sound well into the 1930s, indeed producing what would be some of the most revered classics in those countries, like Wu Yonggang's The Goddess ( China, 1934 ) and Yasujirō Ozu's I Was Born, But ... ( Japan, 1932 ).

Also in 1954, both another Kurosawa film, Ikiru, and Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story were in competition at the 4th Berlin International Film Festival.

On 9 September 1937, at a time when Shochiku was unhappy about Ozu's lack of box-office success ( despite the praise and awards he received from critics ), the thirty-four-year-old Ozu was conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army.

Despite Ozu's reputation in the West as an austere and refined director, Good Morning does not shy away from depicting many of the neighborhood boys ' flatulence jokes.

Shochiku produced the film Café Lumière ( 珈琲時光 ), directed by Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien as homage to Ozu, with direct reference to the late master's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), to premiere on Ozu's birthday.

The film " Body Beautiful ", released on 1 December 1928, was the first Ozu film to use his trademark low camera position .. After a series of " no star " pictures, in September 1929 Ozu's first film with stars, " I graduated but ...", starring Minoru Takada and Kinuyo Tanaka, was released.

For example, Yasujirō Ozu's black and white A Story of Floating Weeds was remade into the color Floating Weeds.

It is a remake of Ozu's own black-and-white silent film A Story of Floating Weeds ( 1934 ).

The Champ is considered one source film which inspired Yasujiro Ozu's classic Japanese film, Passing Fancy ( Dekigokoro, 1933 ).

It is Yasujiro Ozu's first film in color while Japan's first color film, Keisuke Kinoshita's Carmen Comes Home, had been released in 1951.

Ozu's last film was An Autumn Afternoon in 1962.

In 2003, the centenary of Ozu's birth was commemorated at various film festivals around the world.

A variation on this joke appears in Yasujiro Ozu's film Good Morning ( 1959 ).

At 144 minutes, the film is Ozu's longest extant film.

He directed the Japanese film Café Lumière ( 2003 ) for the Shochiku studio as an homage to Yasujirō Ozu ; the film premiered at a festival commemorating the centenary of Ozu's birth.

It was Ozu's last film ; he died in the following year.

Around this time, the Chigasakikan ryokan became Ozu's favoured location for scriptwriting.

Influential monographs by Donald Richie, Paul Schrader, and David Bordwell have ensured a wide appreciation of Ozu's style, aesthetics and themes.

Actually, Ozu's camera is often even lower than that, only one or two feet off the ground.

She became a leading actress at an early age, appearing in Yasujirō Ozu's I Graduated, But ... in 1929.

She quit acting in 1963 ( the same year as Ozu's death ), and has since led a secluded life in Kamakura, refusing all interviews and photographs.

Thus the films seen as they came in ( coordinated for the regular sections ), were often out of context.

More than the fans of Pagnol's old films and of their heroic star, the great Raimu, were looking askance at the project.

For example, the 2nd Academy Awards presented on April 3, 1930, recognized films that were released between August 1, 1928 and July 31, 1929.

Until then, foreign-language films were honored with the Special Achievement Award.

Next were films such as The Winds of the Aures ( 1965 ) of Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Patrol To The East ( 1972 ) of Amar Laskri, Prohibited Area of Ahmed Lallem, ( 1972 ), The Opium and the stick of Ahmed Rachedi, or The Battle of Algiers ( 1966 ) which is an Algerian-Italian film selected three times at the Oscars.

These were The Bump, starring Aubrey Smith ; Twice Two ; Five Pound Reward ; and Bookworms Some of these films survive in the archives of the British Film Institute.

The other Rutherford films ( all directed by George Pollock ) were Murder at the Gallop ( 1963 ), based on the 1953 Hercule Poirot novel After the Funeral ( In this film, she is identified as Miss JTV Marple, though there was no indication as to what the extra initials might stand for ); Murder Most Foul ( 1964 ), based on the 1952 Poirot novel Mrs McGinty's Dead ; and Murder Ahoy!

So-called structure zone models were developed to describe the micro structure and ceramics of thin films as a function of the homologous temperature T < sub > h </ sub > that is the ratio of deposition temperature over melting temperature.

Her films of the early and mid 1950s were generally lightweight romantic dramas, some historical, in which she was cast as ingénue or siren, often in varying states of undress.

Her French-language films were dubbed for international release.

Although Douglas was always second billed under Lancaster in these films, their roles were usually more or less the same size with the exceptions of I Walk Alone, in which Douglas played a villain, and in Seven Days in May, where Douglas ' part was larger than Lancaster's but not as dramatic.

The 1997 film Mrs. Brown was also based on events at Balmoral, although in both films substitute locations were used: Blairquhan Castle in The Queen ; and Duns Castle in Mrs Brown.

Chaplin finished editing the picture in December 1930, by which time silent films were an anachronism.

A 1922 image of Charlie Chaplin Studios, where all of Chaplin's films between 1918 and 1952 were produced

Due to the lack of a script, all of his silent films were usually shot in sequence.

However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.

Because the film specifically targeted Western audiences rather than the domestic audiences who were already used to Wuxia films, English subtitles were needed.

Slapstick ( The Three Stooges is an excellent example of this kind of comedy ) was popular in the earliest silent films, since they didn't need sound to be effective, and they were popular with non-English speaking audiences.

The comedian Charlie Chaplin was one of the last silent film hold-outs, and his films during the 1930s were devoid of dialogue, although they did employ sound effects.

Among the leading lights in comedy films of the next decade were Woody Allen and Mel Brooks.

Most British comedy films of the early 1970s were spin-offs of television series, including Dad's Army and On the Buses.

Also popular were the films of John Hughes such as Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Many cult films were independent films and were not expected by their creators to have mainstream success.