Yasujiro Ozu

January 9, 2024
Director

Quick Facts

Yasujiro Ozu
Full Name Yasujiro Ozu
Occupation Director
Date Of Birth Dec 12, 1903(1903-12-12)
Age 121
Date Of Death 1963-12-12
Birthplace Fukagawa
Country Japan
Birth City Hokkaido
Horoscope Sagittarius

Yasujiro Ozu Biography

Name Yasujiro Ozu
Birthday Dec 12
Birth Year 1903
Place Of Birth Fukagawa
Home Town Hokkaido
Birth Country Japan
Birth Sign Sagittarius
Siblings Shinichi Ozu, Toku Ozu

Yasujiro Ozu is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on December 12, 1903 in Fukagawa, Hokkaido, Japan. Motion picture director, who was born during silent film era. He is most well-known for his works Late Spring or Tokyo Story.

In what is considered his masterpiece Tokyo Story, he directed SetsukoHara.

He shares a grave site with his mother.

Yasujiro Ozu Net Worth

Net Worth $5 Million
Source Of Income Director
House Living in own house.

Yasujiro Ozu is one of the richest Director from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Yasujiro Ozu 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 1927, he began directing. However, a significant portion of his early films did not survive. His first film, Student Romance: Days of Youth, is his earliest known surviving one.

His other films of note include the 1951 film Early Summer and the 1959 film Floating Weeds.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Yasujiro Ozu Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

Yasujiro Ranked on the list of most popular Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Yasujiro Ozu celebrates birthday on December 12 of every year.

Where do I start with Yasujiro Ozu?

  • A ‘pillow shot’ in Late Autumn (1960) – Ozu often used a short succession of such details to set the scene.
  • Good Morning (1959)
  • I Was Born, But… ( 1932)
  • That Night’s Wife (1930)
  • Early Summer (1951)
  • Late Autumn (1960)
  • Tokyo Twilight (1957)

What is Yasujiro Ozu known for?

His most widely beloved films include Late Spring (1949), Tokyo Story (1953), and An Autumn Afternoon (1962). Widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest and most influential filmmakers , Ozu’s work has continued to receive acclaim since his death.

What is the signature style of Yasujiro Ozu?

Precise compositions, contemplative pacing, low camera angles, and elliptical storytelling are just some of the signature techniques the great filmmaker used to evoke a sense of melancholy and poetry in everyday existence.

How was Yasujiro Ozu's style so different from other Japanese directors?

Utilizing low camera angles, masterful composition and contemplative pacing , Yasujiro Ozu’s idiosyncratic style rebels against the conventional rules of cinema, ultimately evoking a nostalgic and reflexive mood in mundane life events.

Why did Ozu cut to a vase?

His style may appear simple, but is in fact so fine-tuned, so carefully calibrated, that he has the power to overwhelm the viewer, to launch a thousand interpretations with a single cut.” Many scholars have talked about the vase, and there is no definite answer.

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