You're such a noble, righteous, humanist guy and one can hear the passionate magnanimity in your voice when you string together superlatives when talking about Ozu.
Thank you for this beautiful compilation and homage to this master of all time. As I have gotten older these works find new depths inside of myself. Wondrous and so thoughtful.
This is a great tribute of one of the great masters of 20th century; your videos are always excellent in pace, editing, choice of images and content. Arigatò!
Amazed with the high quality of this video. A wonderful tribute to Ozu with informative commentary combined with great personal takes. Top notch stuff, SUBBED!
Sir, please keep making videos. You have informed me of so much fantastic cinema, and you're one of my favorite creators. I would watch more of your videos about directors. Keep it up!
Terrific retrospective. Your love of cinema always comes through in your videos, and after watching I always feel inspired to go back and revisit my own favorite films. Cheers!
every ozu film I see convinces me he's up there with ford, varda, Kurosawa, Renoir!!!! loved this video harry hope u do more director specific lists!!!
Wonderful video! Such a great tribute. I also love Tokyo Story and Late Spring but honestly you can’t go wrong with any Ozu film. He was a master! Would love to see you do this with Kurosawa or your other favorite directors. Cheers.
Fantastically made video. You have forced me to admit to my ignorance of Japanese cinema, and of the films of Ozu in particular. And yes, Tokyo Story is inevitable. It's his Mona Lisa. I remember when looking at my Art Past Art Present text book in college (2nd edition, published in 1994), Tokyo Story is the lone film used to represent cinema as art. It is presented alongside Pablo Picasso's Guernica, or Jackson Pollock's Convergence as essential examples of the Art in the 20th century.
Fantastic video. I really enjoyed it. My favourite Ozu film is Late Spring. I cried like a baby towards the end. My second favourite is Late Autumn but I love them all.
What do I think the vase is about? Not sure, probably about 14 inches?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Incredible jokes aside, this is a wonderful video and very watchable. Your combination of tribute blended with a Top Ten, works very well. You capture so much of what makes Ozu great and it's a real treat to see those locations in modern times. I've yet to see An Autumn Afternoon, Tokyo Twilight and Good Morning but am even more keen to after watching this. I'd never thought of it before, but I agree that Late Spring and Tokyo Story also are my favourite Japanese films of the 1940s and 1950s, respectively. It's a big claim amid all those Kurosawa and Mizoguchi classics, but it's true; somehow it's always Ozu moments (and visuals) that I end up thinking about. Tokyo Drifter and Woman In The Dunes would be contenders for my favourite 1960s Japanese movie, and Dersu Uzala would be my favourite from the 1970s. All the best to you. Keep 'em coming.
Tokyo Drifter and Woman in the Dunes are amazing. Those would be top 5 in the 60s for sure for me. With others including An Autumn Afternoon, High and Low and Harakiri. For the 70s I still need to see Dersu Uzala. I have a soft spot for Lady Snowblood, and Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41. Two films as far away from Ozu as possible!
@@1-2manyyeah Oharu crushed me. It's a beautiful looking film fantastically directed but really hard to watch. Late Spring was my all time favourite Japanese film for many years and on another day could be my favourite. It made me weep as did Oharu.
@@1-2many Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 - I'd not heard of it before but what a title! Dersu Uzala feels different from most Kurosawa films (it's essentially more Soviet than Japanese for a start) but it's one of the great natural and autumnal movies; thoughtful, soulful, I adore it.
1)You are doing God's work with this video! I cannot praise it enough! 2) I'm infinitely envious of your visit to what I consider to be the hallowed grounds where these works were created! I hope I can do it too one day! 3) Here's my top 10: 1) Tokyo Story 2) Late Spring 3) Early Summer 4) Floating Weeds 5) The End of Summer 6) Late Autumn 7) An Autumn Afternoon 8) Good Morning 9) Tokyo Twilight 10) The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice 4) If I may do so, let me give you another perspective for the protagonist of Floating Weeds for your next viewing of the film, by suggesting that maybe what characterises him most is not vanity, but deep feelings of immense shame about his profession and his "class" of people. This shame is why he behaves like a jerk because he views his son in a distorted way, like his only vicarious "way out" from the pit he believes he inhabits. Once again, thank you for the wonderful video and may it be the gateway for many to experience the works of the man I concider to be the best director of all!
You're such a noble, righteous, humanist guy and one can hear the passionate magnanimity in your voice when you string together superlatives when talking about Ozu.
Thank you for this beautiful compilation and homage to this master of all time. As I have gotten older these works find new depths inside of myself. Wondrous and so thoughtful.
This is a great tribute of one of the great masters of 20th century; your videos are always excellent in pace, editing, choice of images and content. Arigatò!
I'm always a little surprised how deeply Ozu can make me feel simply by focusing on everyday humanity. He truly is was the master.
Great love letter for the best director of all time
Amazed with the high quality of this video. A wonderful tribute to Ozu with informative commentary combined with great personal takes. Top notch stuff, SUBBED!
I have learned about so many films i would never have know because of you. Thank you sir, you have enriched my life immensely.
Sir, please keep making videos. You have informed me of so much fantastic cinema, and you're one of my favorite creators. I would watch more of your videos about directors. Keep it up!
Cheers! Will do.
Terrific retrospective. Your love of cinema always comes through in your videos, and after watching I always feel inspired to go back and revisit my own favorite films. Cheers!
every ozu film I see convinces me he's up there with ford, varda, Kurosawa, Renoir!!!! loved this video harry hope u do more director specific lists!!!
Wonderful video! Such a great tribute. I also love Tokyo Story and Late Spring but honestly you can’t go wrong with any Ozu film. He was a master! Would love to see you do this with Kurosawa or your other favorite directors. Cheers.
If I ever get back to Japan I'd like to do a Kurosawa video and one on Mizoguchi.
That would be awesome. I hope you do!
@@1-2many and Inagaki too please ❤
Excellent. I am incorporating some of these ideas into my own film writing.
Saw my first Ozu film last week, The Only Son, I was amazed. It brought me to tears it was so poignant
Great video !!
I watched a lot of your videos. It's great to have you on RUclips
im learning! thank you - love your videos!!
Great video like always
Cheers!
Cheers! Looking forward to the next video
Fantastically made video. You have forced me to admit to my ignorance of Japanese cinema, and of the films of Ozu in particular. And yes, Tokyo Story is inevitable. It's his Mona Lisa. I remember when looking at my Art Past Art Present text book in college (2nd edition, published in 1994), Tokyo Story is the lone film used to represent cinema as art. It is presented alongside Pablo Picasso's Guernica, or Jackson Pollock's Convergence as essential examples of the Art in the 20th century.
Great video! I loved the approach you took to covering these films.
Fantastic video. I really enjoyed it. My favourite Ozu film is Late Spring. I cried like a baby towards the end. My second favourite is Late Autumn but I love them all.
What do I think the vase is about? Not sure, probably about 14 inches?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Incredible jokes aside, this is a wonderful video and very watchable. Your combination of tribute blended with a Top Ten, works very well. You capture so much of what makes Ozu great and it's a real treat to see those locations in modern times. I've yet to see An Autumn Afternoon, Tokyo Twilight and Good Morning but am even more keen to after watching this. I'd never thought of it before, but I agree that Late Spring and Tokyo Story also are my favourite Japanese films of the 1940s and 1950s, respectively. It's a big claim amid all those Kurosawa and Mizoguchi classics, but it's true; somehow it's always Ozu moments (and visuals) that I end up thinking about. Tokyo Drifter and Woman In The Dunes would be contenders for my favourite 1960s Japanese movie, and Dersu Uzala would be my favourite from the 1970s. All the best to you. Keep 'em coming.
Tokyo Drifter and Woman in the Dunes are amazing. Those would be top 5 in the 60s for sure for me. With others including An Autumn Afternoon, High and Low and Harakiri. For the 70s I still need to see Dersu Uzala. I have a soft spot for Lady Snowblood, and Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41. Two films as far away from Ozu as possible!
@@1-2many my favourite Japanese film of the 40s is late spring. The 50s The Life Of Oharu. The 60s The Face of Another.
@@garyrobinson8665 I love the Life Of Oharu! The Face Of Another I think has one of the best scores of the 60s.
@@1-2manyyeah Oharu crushed me. It's a beautiful looking film fantastically directed but really hard to watch. Late Spring was my all time favourite Japanese film for many years and on another day could be my favourite. It made me weep as did Oharu.
@@1-2many Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 - I'd not heard of it before but what a title! Dersu Uzala feels different from most Kurosawa films (it's essentially more Soviet than Japanese for a start) but it's one of the great natural and autumnal movies; thoughtful, soulful, I adore it.
Excellently made video, mate. Late Spring is my personal favourite. Only critique - more beer needed.
I had a sip in the video!
Excellent
1)You are doing God's work with this video! I cannot praise it enough!
2) I'm infinitely envious of your visit to what I consider to be the hallowed grounds where these works were created! I hope I can do it too one day!
3) Here's my top 10: 1) Tokyo Story 2) Late Spring 3) Early Summer 4) Floating Weeds 5) The End of Summer 6) Late Autumn 7) An Autumn Afternoon 8) Good Morning 9) Tokyo Twilight 10) The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice
4) If I may do so, let me give you another perspective for the protagonist of Floating Weeds for your next viewing of the film, by suggesting that maybe what characterises him most is not vanity, but deep feelings of immense shame about his profession and his "class" of people. This shame is why he behaves like a jerk because he views his son in a distorted way, like his only vicarious "way out" from the pit he believes he inhabits.
Once again, thank you for the wonderful video and may it be the gateway for many to experience the works of the man I concider to be the best director of all!
Good Morning at 10 is criminal!!!
Please, I want to remember the name of an old horror movie. At the end of the movie The killer's chain got stuck in the lift and His neck was cut