Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963) was one of directors that lead the Japanese film industry's output following World War II. Along with Akira Kurosawa and Kenji Mizoguchi, Ozu's films analyze the conflict between the system of democracy imposed on Japan by the West immediately after the war and the lingering pre-war feudalism. While his peers used medieval Japan as the backdrop for the majority of their films, Ozu set his scope upon the modern era. His post-WWII films are known for examining the same subject, the domestic affairs of the bourgeois family; the movies he filmed before the war study the social struggles of Japan's lower-class denizens.
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