
- 289 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
One of the most well regarded of non-Western film directors, responsible for acknowledged classics like Tokyo Story (1953), Ozu Yasujiro worked during a period of immense turbulence for Japan and its population. This book offers a new interpretation of Ozu's career, from his earliest work in the 1920s up to his death in 1963, focusing on Ozu's depiction of the everyday life and experiences of ordinary Japanese people during a time of depression, war and economic resurgence. Firmly situating him within the context of the Japanese film industry, Woojeong Joo examines Ozu's work as a studio director and his relation to sound cinema, and looks in-depth at his wartime experiences and his adaptation to postwar Japanese society. Drawing on Japanese materials not previously examined in western scholarship, this is a groundbreaking new study of a master of cinema.
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Table of contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Ozu, History and the Everyday
- Chapter 1 Early Ozu: Shoshimin Film and Everyday Realism
- Chapter 2 Ozu in Transition: The Coming of Sound and Family Melodrama
- Chapter 3 Wartime Ozu: Between Bourgeois Drama and National Policy Film
- Chapter 4 Postwar Ozu: Ozu’s Occupation-era Film and Tokyo Regained
- Chapter 5 Late Ozu: New Generation and New Salaryman Film
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Glossary of Japanese Terms
- Select Filmography
- Select Bibliography
- Index