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By David Desser

ISBN-10: 0521482046

ISBN-13: 9780521482042

ISBN-10: 0521484359

ISBN-13: 9780521484350

Ozu's Tokyo tale is mostly considered as one of many best movies ever made. common in its charm, it's also thought of to be 'particularly Japanese'. Exploring its universality and cultural specificity, this selection of particularly commissioned essays demonstrates the a number of planes on which the movie might be favored. The creation outlines Ozu's profession as either a freelance director of an important studio and as a unique determine in jap movie heritage, and in addition analyses the director's cinematic variety, rather his narrative concepts and spatial compositions. different essays situate Ozu's cinema in its dating to Hollywood film-making: his courting to elements of jap culture, situating the movie inside creative modes, non secular structures and ideology, and socio-cultural and familial formations. additionally integrated is an research of ways Ozu has been misunderstood in Western criticism.

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