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FILM DIRECTOR

Yasujirō Ozu

1903 - 1963

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Yasujirō Ozu (小津 安二郎, Ozu Yasujirō, 12 December 1903 – 12 December 1963) was a Japanese filmmaker. He began his career during the era of silent films, and his last films were made in colour in the early 1960s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yasujirō Ozu has received more than 1,594,204 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Yasujirō Ozu is the 62nd most popular film director (down from 59th in 2019), the 55th most popular biography from Japan (down from 48th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Film Director.

Ozu is most famous for his minimalist filmmaking style, which he used to depict the lives of ordinary Japanese people in the post-war era.

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  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Yasujirō Ozu ranks 62 out of 1,581. Before him are Theo Angelopoulos, Werner Herzog, Isao Takahata, Robert Zemeckis, Oliver Stone, and Stephen Hillenburg. After him are Agnès Varda, Claude Chabrol, Richard Attenborough, Terry Gilliam, Luc Besson, and Jean-Jacques Annaud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Yasujirō Ozu ranks 19. Before him are Habib Bourguiba, Fernandel, Galeazzo Ciano, Marguerite Yourcenar, Rudolf Abel, and Andrey Kolmogorov. After him are Anaïs Nin, Adolf Butenandt, C. F. Powell, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Nikolai Podgorny, and Karl Hanke. Among people deceased in 1963, Yasujirō Ozu ranks 21. Before him are Nâzım Hikmet, Francis Poulenc, Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, Sylvia Plath, Theodor Heuss, and Thích Quảng Đức. After him are Herbert Spencer Gasser, Rajendra Prasad, Abd al-Karim Qasim, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Michael Rockefeller, and Carmen Amaya.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yasujirō Ozu ranks 55 out of 6,048. Before him are Takeda Shingen (1521), Utamaro (1753), Isao Takahata (1935), Soichiro Honda (1906), Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159), and Joan Fontaine (1917). After him are Empress Michiko (1934), Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147), Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), Yoshihide Suga (1948), Shinzō Abe (1954), and Tadamichi Kuribayashi (1891).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Yasujirō Ozu ranks 5. Before him are Akira Kurosawa (1910), Hayao Miyazaki (1941), Takeshi Kitano (1947), and Isao Takahata (1935). After him are Kenji Mizoguchi (1898), Nagisa Oshima (1932), Masaki Kobayashi (1916), Shohei Imamura (1926), Hideaki Anno (1960), Franklin J. Schaffner (1920), and Ishirō Honda (1911).

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Filmography

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