Late Spring (1949) is a Japanese drama film directed by the renowned filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu. A widower and his daughter share a heartwarming yet delicate bond in “Late Spring” (1949). Professor Tanaka ...

Ozu Yasujiro, the leading Japanese film director behind classics including “Tokyo Story” and “Late Spring,” has had his double birth and death anniversaries – Ozu died in 1963 on the day of his 60th ...

When Eileen Yoon and Grace Zhang, both BFA Film ’20, attended a screening of Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu’s feature Late Spring as part of a course at Pratt, they had no idea it would alter the ...

Another of Ozu’s late-career color remakes, Late Autumn revisits the situation of his 1949 masterpiece Late Spring with Setsuko Hara, the filial child of the earlier film, here playing the mother of a ...

AN ACTOR PREPARES Nakamura Ganjirô plays the role of a kabuki master in Ozu Yasujirô’s 1956 film, ‘Floating Weeds.’ (Photo courtesy of Janus Films) Why is the late Ozu Yasujirô idolized by moviemakers ...