Ozu is often perceived to be a uniquely Japanese director with a fascination for the domestic, but in fact he was a wide-ranging movie fan who started out aping US films and rarely had real experiences to parallel the lives of his protagonists, says this February 2010 feature.
The tie that binds our September releases of Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story and Koji Fukada’s Love Life: the great tradition of the Japanese domestic drama.