The ephemeral as transcultural aesthetic: a contextualization of the early films of Ozu Yasujiro

Document author(s):

Isolde Standish

Document source:

Journal of Japanese & Korean Cinema

Publication date:

2012

Document language:

English

Document type:

article

Number of pages:

Source pagination:

3-14

Document name subject:

Charlie Chaplin, Fritz Lang, and Yasujiro Ozu

Related films:

Celovek s kinoapparatom (The Man with a movie camera) — Vertov, Dziga — No country known — 1929
Tokyo no gassho (Tokyo chorus) — Ozu, Yasujiro — Japan — 1931
Umarete wa mita keredo (I was born, but...) — Ozu, Yasujiro — Japan — 1932
Tokyo no onna (Woman of Tokyo) — Ozu, Yasujiro — Japan — 1933
Hijosen no onna (Dragnet girl) — Ozu, Yasujiro — Japan — 1933
Modern times — Chaplin, Charlie — United States — 1936
Naniwa erejî (Osaka elegy) — Mizoguchi, Kenji — Japan — 1936
Hitori musuko (The only son) — Ozu, Yasujiro — Japan — 1936
Banshun (Late spring) — Ozu, Yasujiro — Japan — 1949
Bakushu (Early summer) — Ozu, Yasujiro — Japan — 1951
Tokyo monogatari (Tokyo story) — Ozu, Yasujiro — Japan — 1953

Film country(ies):

Japan and United States

Film language(s):

English and Japanese

Film production company:

Charles Chaplin Productions, Daiei Motion Picture Co. Ltd., and Shochiku Kabushiki Kaisha

Film genre(s):

Adaptation, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fallen woman, Feature, Melodrama, Social problem, and Women

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