Yasujirō Ozu directed Good Morning ( 1959 ) and Floating Weeds ( 1958 ), which was adapted from his earlier silent A Story of Floating Weeds ( 1934 ), and was shot by Rashomon / Sansho the Bailiff cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa.

Some critics class him with Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and Yasujirō Ozu as one of the masters of Japanese cinema.

* I Was Born, But ..., Yasujirō Ozu, 1932

* A Story of Floating Weeds, Yasujirō Ozu, 1934

" This is a reference to fellow filmmakers Yasujirō Ozu, François Truffaut, and Andrei Tarkovsky.

* An Inn in Tokyo ( Yasujirō Ozu, 1935 )

Among Kita-Kamakura's most illustrious citizens were artist Isamu Noguchi and movie director Yasujirō Ozu.

Yasujirō Ozu ( far right ) on location of Tokyo Story ( 1953 )

was a Japanese screenwriter most famous for collaborating with Yasujirō Ozu on many of the director's films.

He was the second son of the Ozu merchant house of Matsusaka ( the film director Yasujirō Ozu was a descendant of the same line ).

* Tokyo Story by Yasujirō Ozu ( 1953 )

Frequent visitors to his house included the writer Hirotsu Kazuo and the film director Yasujirō Ozu.

Upon graduation from Waseda in 1951, Imamura began his film career working as an assistant to Yasujirō Ozu at Shochiku Studios on the films ( 1951 ), ( 1952 ) and ( 1953 ).

* Yasujirō Ozu ( 1903-63 ), a Japanese filmmaker

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* 1929 I Graduated, But ... ( 大学は出たけれど Daigaku wa detakeredo )-directed by Yasujirō Ozu ( 小津安二郎 )

* 1930 I Flunked, But ... ( 落第はしたけれど Rakudai wa shitakeredo )-directed by Yasujirō Ozu

* 1933 Woman of Tokyo ( 東京の女 Tōkyō no Onna )-directed by Yasujirō Ozu

* 1933 Dragnet Girl ( 非常線の女 Hijōsen no Onna )-directed by Yasujirō Ozu

* 1948 A Hen in the Wind ( 風の中の牝鶏 Kaze no naka no Mendori )-directed by Yasujirō Ozu

* 1950 The Munekata Sisters ( 宗方姉妹 Munekata Kyōdai )-directed by Yasujirō Ozu

* 1958 Equinox Flower ( 彼岸花 Higanbana )-directed by Yasujirō Ozu

Tokyo Story ( 1953 ) by Yasujirō Ozu explores social changes of the era by telling the story of an aging couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their grown children, but find the children are too self-absorbed to spend much time with them.

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

is a 1953 Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu.

The film also inspired some of the story and scenes from acclaimed Japanese director Yasujirō Ozu in his film, Tokyo Chorus.

is a 1951 film by Yasujirō Ozu.

is a 1959 film by Yasujirō Ozu.

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.

is a 1941 Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu.

In Equinox Flower ( 彼岸花, Higanbana ), a 1958 color Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu, one of the characters declaims a poet " based on a death poem of patriot Kusunoki Masatsura ".

is a 1962 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu.

* grave of film director Yasujirō Ozu, marked

* Yasujirō Shimazu ( 1897 – 1945 ), a Japanese film director

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

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

Shindo wrote scripts for almost all of the Shochiku directors except Yasujirō Ozu.

He joined the Shōchiku Studio in 1953 as an assistant director, where he worked on films by such directors as Yasujirō Ozu.

Although regarded, like his contemporary Yasujirō Ozu, as outdated and old-fashioned by Japanese audience immediately after the war, Mizoguchi was rediscovered, particularly by Cahiers du cinéma critics like Jacques Rivette, in the West.

Mizoguchi died in Kyoto of leukemia at the age of 58, by which time he had become recognized as one of the three masters of Japanese cinema, together with Yasujirō Ozu and Akira Kurosawa.

His book Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer, which examines the cross-cultural similarities between Robert Bresson, Yasujirō Ozu and Carl Theodor Dreyer, was published in 1972.

The script was developed by Yasujirō Ozu and his long-time collaborator Kōgo Noda over a period of 103 days in a country inn in Chigasaki.

The distributor is credited with introducing numerous films, now considered masterpieces of world cinema, to American audiences, including the films of Michelangelo Antonioni, Sergei Eisenstein, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, François Truffaut, Yasujirō Ozu and many other well-regarded directors.

He was a favourite of director Yasujirō Ozu, appearing in 52 of the director's 54 films.

Its best remembered directors include Yasujirō Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Mikio Naruse, Keisuke Kinoshita and Yōji Yamada.