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Filmmaker · Japan

Yasujiro Ozu

Died in 1963

Yasujiro Ozu was born in Tokyo on 12 December 1903. He joined Shōchiku in 1923 as an assistant cameraman and directed his first film there in 1927. After comedies and satires, he devoted himself to the daily life of ordinary people, then, after the war, to the Japanese family, with a low-placed camera and fixed shots. He shot nothing from 1942 to 1947. He died in Tokyo on 12 December 1963, on his birthday.

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