Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will screen eight of Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu’s films in the next two months, beginning with two greats: “Late Spring” (7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 1) and ...

The extraordinary Japanese actress Setsuko Hara, who died last September, at age 95, has often been compared to Greta Garbo, largely owing to the fact that both retired early from the screen (Hara at ...

The titles are similar — An Autumn Afternoon; The End of Summer; Late Autumn; Early Spring; Early Summer — as are the motifs found in Yasujiro Ozu's oeuvre from the late 1940s until his death in 1963.

LATELY the films of Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963) seem farther away than ever. Yes, there was a giant touring retrospective of his work in 2003, the 100th anniversary of his birth, and yes, there have been ...

The greatest filmmaker of postwar Japan found a new way to show life onscreen. By Dana Stevens MONO NO AWARE, a phrase that translates to “the pathos of things,” or something like “the beauty of ...

The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today Ozu and his Afterlives, a program honoring the work and legacy of the great Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu (1903 - 1963), running today, December 4 - ...