Directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim and produced in cooperation with the Yasujiro Ozu estate, the forthcoming film is described as a moving meditation on the life and ideas of the ...

Adam Grinwald is a Feature Writer at Collider with a lifelong passion for cinema, literature, music, and culture. From the early days of memorizing practically every single line of dialogue off a ...

Benedict is a college graduate with a degree in Film and Screen Media and a future unemployed Letterboxd user. He got into movies through a childhood love of blockbusters and comic book movies, and ...

Consider the "wink or twitch" problem, which anthropologists have used to describe the fundamental challenge of deciphering another culture. The subject's eye moves, but was it just an involuntary ...

A Yasujiro Ozu film is instantly exhilarating because of the tension between his rigorously economic style, with its profoundly evocative images, and his warm compassion for the Japanese. It lifts his ...

Regarded as one of the world's greatest filmmakers, Ozu’s often slow-paced chronicles of everyday lives in postwar Japan continue to charm fellow directors and audiences alike. By Gavin J Blair ...

Legendary director Yasujiro Ozu’s rigorously spare style was often marked by long, slow takes -- the camera set at the eye level of a person sitting on the tatami matting that cover the floors of a ...

There’s been an epic find for serious film buffs this week. A nearly-finished 1929 film called “Tokkan Kozo,” or “A Straightforward Boy,” by the hugely-influential Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu has ...

Tickets are $7.50 for regular screenings ($5 NWFF/Cinema Seattle members) and $15 ($12.50) for screenings with live scores. Six-packs are available of five regular films and one film with live score ...

David MAREUIL/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images. Japan’s Tokyo Film Festival (TIFF) has revealed the official poster for its 2023 edition, which pays tribute to the country’s seminal filmmaker Yasujirō ...