The Ozu Diaries

During his lifetime, director Yasujiro Ozu maintained a trove of personal diaries that reveal a remarkably intimate side of the legendary filmmaker. Pulling from essays, home movies, archival photos, and recollections of Ozu-gumi (Ozu staff/collaborators) like Kogo Noda and Kinuyo Tanaka, The Ozu Diaries attempts to unmask the mystique surrounding Ozu’s persona. With fascinating anecdotes—such as Ozu hearing a rumor that Setsuko Hara could not act prior to working with her—and contributions by Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Wim Wenders, The Ozu Diaries offers a glimpse of one of cinema’s greatest masters, an auto portrait told through his own words.

Dir. Daniel Raim, 2025, 140 min. DCP, color, in Japanese, English, Chinese, French with English subtitles. With Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Wim Wenders, Tsai Ming-liang, Kyoko Kagawa.

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