This December marks the 120th anniversary of Yasujiro Ozu’s birth. For those who can’t quite place the name, he is the Japanese director of such exquisitely crafted classics as “Late Spring” (1949), ...

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 ...

A shot-for-shot reimagining of the opening credits and climax of Yasujirō Ozu’s Tokyo Story (1953). Re-setting the scene in Los Angeles and recasting Noriko and Kyoko with two Japanese actors ...