Ozu cared a great deal about visual style and made up the picture in his head before a shoot. Since composition was his foremost consideration, performances were required to fit into his compositional scheme.
Floating Weeds (1959), 1:04:58
Late Spring (1949), 1:45:56
An Autumn Afternoon (1962), 50:27
Tokyo Story (1953), 2:12:03
Late Autumn (1960), 39:28
Tokyo Twilight (1957), 15:38
Similarities … are many, and differences few in the extraordinarily limited world of the Ozu film. It is a small world, closed, governed by rules apparently inflexible, controlled by laws that are only to be deduced.
— Donald Richie, Ozu: His Life and Films
Equinox Flower (1958), 1:57:24
A Story of Floating Weeds (1934), 1:25:48
