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Yasujirô Ozu

Highest Rated: 100% Tokyo Twilight (1957)

Lowest Rated: 88% Ohayô (1959)

Birthday: Dec 12, 1903

Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan

Few filmmakers outside the avant-garde have developed a personal style as rigorous as Yasujiro Ozu. While his films are in a sense experimental, he worked exclusively in the mainstream Japanese film industry, making extraordinary movies about quite ordinary events. His early films include a ghost story, a thriller, and a period piece, but Ozu is best known and admired for his portraits of everyday family life shot in what one critic has called a most "unreasonable style."

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Highest rated movies

100% 92% Tokyo Twilight
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100% 88% Early Spring
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100% 94% Record of a Tenement Gentleman
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100% 82% There Was a Father
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100% 84% A Story of Floating Weeds
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100% 86% The End of Summer
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100% 86% Late Autumn
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100% 90% I Was Born, But ...
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100% 92% Early Summer
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95% 91% An Autumn Afternoon Director - 1962
100% 86% The End of Summer Director,
Screenwriter 		- 1962
100% 86% Late Autumn Director,
Screenwriter 		- 1960
96% 91% Floating Weeds Director - 1959
88% 87% Ohayô Director,
Writer 		- 1959
88% 87% Equinox Flower Director,
Writer 		- 1958
No Score Yet No Score Yet Higanbana Director,
Writer 		- 1958
100% 92% Tokyo Twilight Director,
Screenwriter 		- 1957
100% 88% Early Spring Director,
Writer 		- 1956
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Moon Has Risen Screenwriter - 1955
100% 93% Tokyo Story Director,
Writer 		- 1953
93% 89% Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice Director,
Screenwriter 		- 1952
100% 92% Early Summer Director,
Writer 		- 1951
No Score Yet 89% The Munekata Sisters Director,
Screenwriter 		- 1950
100% 92% Late Spring Director - 1949
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Hen in the Wind Director,
Writer 		- 1948
100% 94% Record of a Tenement Gentleman Director,
Writer 		- 1947
100% 82% There Was a Father Director,
Screenwriter 		- 1942
No Score Yet 85% The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family Director,
Writer 		- 1941
No Score Yet 87% What Did the Lady Forget? Director,
Writer 		- 1937
No Score Yet 87% The Only Son Director - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kikugoro VI Dances Kagami Jishi Director - 1936
No Score Yet 81% An Inn in Tokyo Director - 1935
100% 84% A Story of Floating Weeds Director,
Screenwriter 		- 1934
No Score Yet 75% A Mother Should Be Loved Director - 1934
No Score Yet 93% Woman of Tokyo Director - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dragnet Girl Director - 1933
No Score Yet 72% Passing Fancy Director - 1933
100% 90% I Was Born, But ... Director - 1932
No Score Yet 80% Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? Director - 1932
No Score Yet 81% Tokyo Chorus Director - 1931
No Score Yet 100% The Lady and the Beard Director,
Writer 		- 1931
No Score Yet 70% That Night's Wife Director - 1930
No Score Yet No Score Yet I Flunked But... Director,
Writer 		- 1930
No Score Yet 67% I Flunked But (Rakudai wa shita keredo) Director - 1930
No Score Yet 100% Walk Cheerfully Director - 1930
No Score Yet No Score Yet I Graduated But ... Director - 1929
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fighting Friends Director - 1929
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tokkan kozo (A Straightforward Boy) Director - 1929
No Score Yet No Score Yet Days of Youth Director,
Screenwriter 		- 1929
No Score Yet No Score Yet Straightforward Boy Director - 1929