Ozu Castle in Ehime prefecture’s Ozu town is the first and only castle keep in Japan to allow travelers to stay overnight. With a history dating from 1617, it’s also one of only a handful of ...

Akiko Ozu and her husband, cinematographer Koichi Furuya, at the Kamakura Museum of Literature with Yasujiro Ozu’s diaries during a location shoot for the documentary in July 2022.

It’s hard to think of another filmmaker who produced as vast and influential a body of work using as seemingly limited a box of tools. Between 1927 and 1962, Ozu, who died on his 60th birthday ...

Over his career, Ozu spent most of his energy on films that focus on family stories, especially the bonds between parents and their children. Tokyo Story is regarded as the most representative ...