Over the last two decades, Yasujiro Ozu has won international recognition as a major filmmaker. Combining biographical information with discussions of the films' aesthetic strategies and cultural significance, David Bordwell questions the popular image of Ozu as the traditional Japanese artisan and examines the aesthetic nature and functions of his cinema.
- ISBN10 0691008221
- ISBN13 9780691008226
- Publish Date 21 August 1988 (first published 1 January 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 January 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 384
- Language English
- URL https://press.princeton.edu/titles/4193.html