Japanese directors would bring to the screen some of the greatest masterpieces in the history of cinema: films such as Ozu Yasujiro’s Tokyo Story and Sōshun (Early Spring), Mizuguchi Kenji’s The Life of Oharu and Sansho the Bailiff, and Kurosawa Akira’s Seven Samurai and High and Low. Novels such as Mishima Yukio’s Confessions of a Mask (1949), Dazai Osamu’s No Longer Human (1948), Kawabata Yasunari’s Snow Country (1948), and Tanizaki Junichiro’s The Key (1956)
