FILM DIRECTOR

Yasujirō Ozu

1903 - 1963

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Yasujirō Ozu (小津 安二郎, Ozu Yasujirō; 12 December 1903 – 12 December 1963) was a Japanese filmmaker. He began his career during the era of silent films, and his last films were made in colour in the early 1960s. Ozu first made a number of short comedies, before turning to more serious themes in the 1930s. The most prominent themes of Ozu's work are family and marriage, and especially the relationships between generations. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yasujirō Ozu is the 55th most popular film director (down from 46th in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 35th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Film Director.

Ozu is most famous for his minimalist filmmaking style, which he used to depict the lives of ordinary Japanese people in the post-war era.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Yasujirō Ozu ranks 55 out of 2,041. Before him are Robert Zemeckis, George Miller, Oliver Stone, Theo Angelopoulos, Roger Vadim, and Takeshi Kitano. After him are Jack L. Warner, Stephen Hillenburg, Paul Verhoeven, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Brian De Palma, and Michael Haneke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Yasujirō Ozu ranks 19. Before him are Fernandel, Mark Rothko, Jan Tinbergen, Andrey Kolmogorov, Galeazzo Ciano, and Vladimir Horowitz. After him are Marguerite Yourcenar, Tamam Shud case, Lars Onsager, Kane Tanaka, Frank P. Ramsey, and Hugo Theorell. Among people deceased in 1963, Yasujirō Ozu ranks 21. Before him are Francis Poulenc, Abd el-Krim, Theodor Heuss, Sylvia Plath, Paul Hindemith, and Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria. After him are Józef Gosławski, Nâzım Hikmet, Carmen Amaya, Abd al-Karim Qasim, J. D. Tippit, and Herbert Spencer Gasser.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yasujirō Ozu ranks 52 out of 6,245. Before him are Morihei Ueshiba (1883), Akira Toriyama (1955), Sakamoto Ryōma (1836), Takeshi Kitano (1947), Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159), and Takeda Shingen (1521). After him are Emperor Ninkō (1800), Emperor Kōkaku (1771), Olivia de Havilland (1916), Hideki Yukawa (1907), Takashi Kasahara (1918), and Emperor Suizei (-669).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Yasujirō Ozu ranks 5. Before him are Hayao Miyazaki (1941), Akira Kurosawa (1910), Isao Takahata (1935), and Takeshi Kitano (1947). After him are Kenji Mizoguchi (1898), Masaki Kobayashi (1916), Franklin J. Schaffner (1920), Nagisa Oshima (1932), Shohei Imamura (1926), Mamoru Oshii (1951), and Hideaki Anno (1960).

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