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Yasujiro Ozu, the man whom his kinsmen consider the most Japanese for all film directors, had but one major subject, the Japanese family, and but one major theme, its dissolution. The Japanese family in dissolution figures in every one of his fifty-three films.

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"A beautiful insight into the mind of a director."
* Filmmakers Newsletter *
"The art of Ozu is the art of contemplation, and Richie echoes it perfectly. His book is a model of lucidity and understanding, and one of the best studies of a director ever written."
* Films and Filming *
"Bit by bit there emerges as complete an account of how one type of film works as I have ever read." * Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism *
"Is and probably will remain the definitive in-English study of Ozu and his films."
* Films in Review *

Ozu

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 15 March 1977
      ISBN-13 9780520032774
      978-0520032774
      ISBN-10 0520032772
      Also in:
      Biography Biography: arts and entertainment

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Yasujiro Ozu, the man whom his kinsmen consider the most Japanese for all film directors, had but one major subject, the Japanese family, and but one major theme, its dissolution. The Japanese family in dissolution figures in every one of his fifty-three films.

      Trade Review
      "A beautiful insight into the mind of a director."
      * Filmmakers Newsletter *
      "The art of Ozu is the art of contemplation, and Richie echoes it perfectly. His book is a model of lucidity and understanding, and one of the best studies of a director ever written."
      * Films and Filming *
      "Bit by bit there emerges as complete an account of how one type of film works as I have ever read." * Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism *
      "Is and probably will remain the definitive in-English study of Ozu and his films."
      * Films in Review *

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