The Cinema Of Ozu Yasujiro: Histories Of The Everyday (Edinburgh Studies In East Asian Film)

Ozu Yasujiro, whose film Tokyo Story (1953) recentely topped the BFI Directors' Top 100 Films list, is one of the most widely known, yet under-researched, non-Western film directors. This book re-examines Ozu's entire career and his films from a new soci-historical approach. Drawing upon Japanese materials yet to be examined in the West, Woojeong Joo focuses on Ozu's dilemma as a commercial studio director, his interest in sound cinema, his war experiences and his complex stance on postwar Japanese politics and society.

• | Author: Woojeong Joo
• | Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• | Publication Date: May 19, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0748696326
• | ISBN-13: 9780748696321