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Naruse Mikio
- Avalanche (1937) 10/10
- Sincerity (1939) 10/10
- Husband and Wife (1953) 9/10
- When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960) 10/10
- Hit and Run (1966) 10/10
Ozu Yasujirō
- Fighting Friends Japanese Style (1929) 6/10
- Tokyo Chorus (1931) 10/10
- Woman of Tokyo (1933) 9/10
- A Story of Floating Weeds (1934) 10/10
- An Inn in Tokyo (1935) 10/10
- Late Spring (1949) 10/10
- Early Summer (1951) 10/10
- Tokyo Story (1953) 10/10
- the End of Summer (1961) 10/10
- An Autumn Afternoon (1962) 10/10
Jacques Tourneur
- I Walked With a Zombie (1943) 7/10
- the Leopard Man (1943) 7/10
- Out of the Past (1947) 10/10
- Stranger on Horseback (1955) 8/10
- Nightfall (1957) 10/10
Reviews
Kohayagawa-ke no aki (1961)
Unique among Ozu's works, to say the least
Of the Ozu films I've seen this one seems to stand out the most; there isn't a single shot of a train, only the sound of distant ones passing. There are attempts at arranging marriages, for a young woman and for a widow, but neither come to fruition. He almost throws a curve ball so to speak, since at the beginning of the film you're given the impression that it's going to be about two widows getting' the hook up, but then it turns out to be more of a study on the widowed father of the Kohayagawa family. There's also one more thing I've yet to have seen in an Ozu film, as far as I can remember: a dead person on screen, usually we're entering the stories of these people's lives after someone has croaked. Definitely the most bittersweet of the Ozu films I've seen thus far, there are moments of genuinely touching comedy and also a few moments of blatant commentary on the modernization of the Japanese woman at the time, with the one daughter whose only regret after her "father" dies is that she doesn't get the mink stole she wanted, not to mention she's going out with a new American guy every other day.