The Film Sufi

Yasujiro Ozu , the much-admired and revered Japanese filmmaker who flourished from the end of World War II until his death in 1963, was r...

Yasujiro Ozu’s penultimate film, The End of Summer ( Kohayagawa-ke No Aki , 1961),  had several similarities with his previous work, La...

Yasujiro Ozu’s Late Autumn ( Akibiyori , 1960), like his two preceding films, Floating Weeds ( Ukigusa , 1959) and Good Morning ( Oha...

Yasujiro Ozu’s first color film, Equinox Flower ( Higanbana , 1958) did not represent a radical break from his famously rigorous visual s...

Yasujiro Ozu’s last black-and-white film, Tokyo Twilight ( Tokyo Boshoku , 1957), was one of his darkest works – even more downbeat tha...