Kurosawa and Ozu: Two Giants of Film

Kurosawa and Ozu: Two Giants of Film

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S1 E23: Meet Japan's greatest filmmakers: Ozu Yasujiro and Kurosawa Akira. How do their best films reflect lasting connections to world cinema? Revisit Ozu's 1953 masterpiece Tokyo Story (inspired by an American domestic drama) and Kurosawa's rousing 1961 adventure Yojimbo (which fused samurai culture with the American Western).