Yoshida Kiju, a key filmmaker of Shochiku New Wave cinema, entered Shochiku Studios as an assistant director. He worked primarily for director Kinoshita Keisuke, but he also found himself in close proximity to Ozu Yasujiro. Yoshida started directing
"A brilliant and fascinating study and reminiscence of
Ozu."--Dennis Washburn, Journal of Japanese Studies
"A rare opportunity to read a distinguished auteur discussing the
work of a truly exceptional film artist with discerning eyes and
feelings of affection. Yoshida Kiju's book is permeated with a
sense of sorrow, respect, and above all love for Ozu, who
simultaneously believed in cinema's possibility as an art form and
revealed its fundamental fragility."--Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, New York
University "Yoshida Kiju's book on Ozu Yasujiro, a colleague and
mentor of Yoshida's at Shochiku Studios, is rich in originality,
genuinely challenging, and full of restrained emotions."
--Hasumi Shigehiko, Film Critic
"Like a film by Ozu, Yoshida's book is a joy to revisit. One senses
that it was created as a labor of love and also as a way of playing
with multiple interpretations. In a way, subtle observations in
Ozu's Anti-Cinema also seem to 'deny their own existence'--a stance
that leaves us with tantalizing suggestions as it compels us to
review the films themselves."--Linda C. Ehrlich, The Journal of
Asian Studies
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