Yasujiro Ozu: What Mark has learned so far

Who was Yasujiro Ozu?

To start out with, I knew nothing of Ozu.  I hadn’t even seen his legend of world cinema, Tokyo Story.  I haven’t read any biographies of him, haven’t read his published diaries and hadn’t looked him up online until recently. So just about everything I have to say is coming from his films and a cursory examination of his background from IMDB and Wikipedia.  However, I will be studying and learning more about him, as I already have done with Kobayashi, Kitano Takashi ...