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Yasujiro Ozu

Highest Rated:
100% Early Summer (1951)
Lowest Rated:
86% Equinox Flower (1958)
Birthday:
Dec 12, 1903
Birthplace:
Tokyo, Japan
Bio:
Yasujiro Ozu has been widely touted as the most Japanese of Japanese film directors. In fact, Japanese distributors initially refused to release Ozu's work abroad, fearing that the West wouldn't appreciate its subtle beauty at a time when films of Akira Kurosawa and Kenji Mizoguchi were winning…

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 86% - 100%
Number of Movies: 33
Box Office Since 2001: --
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
1974 100% Early Spring (Soshun)
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1965 Daikon to ninjin (Radishes and Carrots)
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1964 Ochazuke no aji (Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice)
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1964 91% Sanma no aji (An Autumn Afternoon) (The Widower)
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1961 Kohayagawa-ke no aki (The End of Summer) (Early Autumn)
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1960 100% Akibiyori (Late Autumn)
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1959 95% Floating Weeds (Ukigusa)
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1959 87% Ohayo (Good Morning)
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1958 86% Equinox Flower
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1957 100% Tôkyô boshoku (Tokyo Twilight)
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1953 100% Tokyo Story (Tôkyô monogatari)
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1951 100% Early Summer
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1950 Munekata kyoudai (The Munekata Sisters)
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1949 100% Late Spring
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1948 Kaze no naka no mendori, (A Hen in the Wind)
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1947 100% Nagaya shinshiroku (Record of a Tenement Gentleman)
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1942 100% There Was a Father
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1937 Shukujo wa nani o wasureta ka (What Did The Lady Forget?)
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1936 Hitori musuko (The Only Son)
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1935 Tokyo no yado (An Inn in Tokyo)
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1934 A Mother Should Be Loved
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1934 A Story of Floating Weeds (Ukikusa monogatari)
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1933 Passing Fancy
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1933 Tokyo no onna (Woman of Tokyo)
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1932 94% Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo (I Was Born, But ) (Children of Tokyo)
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1932 Seishun no Yume Imaizuko (Where Are the Dreams of Youth?)
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1931 Shukujo to hige (The Lady and the Beard)(The Lady and Her Favorite)
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1931 Tokyo Chorus (Tokyo no kôrasu)
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1930 Hogaraka ni ayume (Walk Cheerfully)
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1930 Sono Yo No Tsuma (That Night's Wife)
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1930 I Flunked But (Rakudai wa shita keredo)
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1929 Wasei kenka tomodachi (Fighting Friends: Japanese Style)
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1929 Tokkan kozo (A Straightforward Boy)
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