Yasujiro Ozu

Nationality:
Japanese
Birthdate:
12/12/1903
Birthplace:
Tokyo, Japan
Death Date:
12/11/1963
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Few filmmakers outside the avant-garde have developed a personal style as rigorous as Yasujiro Ozu. While his films are in a sense experimental, he worked exclusively in the mainstream Japanese film industry, making extraordinary movies about quite ordinary events. His early films include a ghost story, a thriller, and a period piece, but Ozu is best known and admired for his portraits of everyday family life shot in what one critic has called a most "unreasonable style."

Ozu's early fascination with cinema soon turned into an obsession; as a student he reportedly went to great lengths to skip Continued

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1924 
Joined Shochiku company as assistant cameraman
1926 
Hired as assistant director to Tadamoto Okubo
1927 
Film directing debut with "Zange no Yaiba/The Sword of Penitence" (based on US film "Kick-In;" first collobaration with screenwriter Kogo Noda)
1936 
First sound film as director "Hitori musuko/The Only Son"
1937 
Served as infantry corporal in China during Sino-Japanese War
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