Yasujiro Ozu: A Statement of Purpose

I’ve been wanting to do a Yasujiro Ozu retrospective for a while. And, now that I’ve decided to actually pull the trigger on one, I look forward to the nose dive in traffic to the blog for about a month and a half or so.

Worth it, though.

What kicked me into actually throwing him on the list was Paul Schrader’s book about what he called Transcendental Style in Film. Ozu was the first director he wrote about in the main body of the book (it included a forward written twenty years later ...