Ozu

[Madeline George]

After reading the article, I can’t wait to watch one of Ozu’s movies.  The description makes it sound kind of like a Jane Austen novel.  Simple plot, but it’s all in the way it plays out.   There are apparently tons of era context clues that the WW2 era would see, recognize, and understand within Ozu’s movies.  One example being the daughter in one of his films getting treatment for mlanourishment due to the war era shortages and this treatment postponing her possibly finding a husband.  I would like to see if I would catch onto to these era impied plot details.  I’m interested in hearing what our lecturer has to say about this topic.