Ikite wa mita keredo - Ozu Yasujirô den (1983)

User Rating:

7.9/10   

Director:

Kazuo Inoue

Writers:

Kazuo Inoue (screenplay)
Kazuo Inoue (structure)

Release Date:

29 October 1983 (Japan)

Genre:

Documentary

Cast

Ineko Arima	...	Herself
Chikage Awashima	...	Herself
Shohei Imamura	...	Himself (as Shôhei Imamura)
Tatsuya Jô	...	Narrator
Kashiko Kawakita	...	Herself
Keisuke Kinoshita	...	Himself
Keiko Kishi	...	Herself
Kie Nakai	...	Herself
Nobuo Nakamura	...	Himself
Mariko Okada	...	Herself
Donald Richie	...	Himself
Chishu Ryu	...	Himself (as Chishuu Ryuu)
Tadao Sato	...	Himself (as Tadao Satô)
Kaneto Shindô	...	Himself
Haruko Sugimura	...	Herself
Eijirô Tôno	...	Himself
Yôko Tsukasa	...	Herself

Also Known As:

I Lived, But... (International: English title)
Ikite wa mita keredo - Ozu Yasujirô monogatari (Japan) (pre-release title)
The Life and Works of Yasujiro Ozu (USA)

Runtime:

123 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Black and White | Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Shochiku Company

Trivia:

This documentary is featured on the Criterion Collection's 2-disc DVD for _Tokyo monogatari (1953)_.

Movie Connections:

References Hikkoshi fufu (1928)

Worthy tribute to a Japanese master

An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both interviews and Ozu-related locations) shot by Ozu's long-time camera-man (who came out of retirement to work on this). Surprisingly (or perhaps not), it focuses less on Ozu's accomplishments as a film-maker than on his impact on the lives of the people he worked with. One of the best films of this type I've ever seen.