After discovering Ozu's Notebooks in 2020... Re-immerse yourself in the work of the leading director of Japanese cinema with this book

OZU, OFF-SCREEN
Serenity and turbulence,
a biographical supplement
to Ozu's Notebooks 1933-1963
A book by Terui Yasuo
translated and formatted by Josiane Pinon-Kawatake
112 cm x 16.5 cm | 180 pages
ISBN: 979-10-93798-22-6

Written by a Japanese journalist, Terui Yasuo, on the occasion of the ^110th anniversary of Ozu's birth in 2013, this "off-screen" Ozu has not aged a day. His long exposure to Ozu's films and his great knowledge of the phenomenal bibliography devoted to him in Japan have allowed him to provide his readers with a wealth of new information on the filmmaker's life, while sharing his comments with them. Comments that will not fail to amaze.

The translator of Ozu's Notebooks , Josiane Pinon-Kawatake, has chosen a broad division by decade (20s/30s, 40s, 50s, 60s) and, for each of them, a fine thematic division carried out in order to better guide the reader.

The interest of this text is the look at the turbulence, whether professional, family or intimate, that Ozu had to face in his life; turbulence that many seek to erase in order to preserve this oriental serenity that seeks to reign, to be displayed in his films and which has shaped the image of the director.

Terui Yasuo had given the subtitle to his article “Four women and a mirage cocoon”.

What does this mean?

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Released on October 17, 2023