After Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu is probably the greatest Japanese filmmaker. While Kurosawa is remembered for his samurai epics, Ozu is mostly remembered for his small, intimate pictures about family life. But he didn't just do small stories about families. In the 1930s, Ozu made crime dramas, like the ones that Warner Brothers were turning … Continue reading Yasujiro Ozu: The Elegance of Simplicity