'You just stay silent.'
Tag - Yasujiro Ozu
The stark reality of what Ozu saw around him: the fragmentation of both self and society, a theme that would haunt him throughout his cinematic life
"I want to start over. I want to start my life again from the beginning."
"Tokyo Tower. When it's done, it'll be the tallest in the world."
Just doing your little job is perfect enough
"It's harder to say goodbye if we keep postponing it."
"In the end, we spend our lives alone."
A feature about a fatal chain of events exposing society's power mechanisms and modes of exploitation.
We speak with Masayuki Suo about Japanese silent films and the concept of benshi, what was the meaning of film as a concept in the silent and the talkies era...