Notes
Introduction
1. Readers interested in more detailed and abstract arguments should consult David
Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, Film Art: An Introduction (New York: Knopf, 1985);
David Bordwell, Janet Staiger, and Kristin Thompson, The Classical Hollywood Cinema:
Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985);
and David Bordwell, Narration in the Fiction Film (Madison: University of Wisconsin
Press, 1985).
PART I
Chapter 1
1. Donald Richie, Ozu (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974), pp. 195-6.
2. See, for instance, Deke Dusinberre, 'Yasujiro Ozu, Master of Moods', The Movie no. 46
(1980): p. 916.
3. Jean-Paul Sartre, Search for a Method, trans. Hazel E. Barnes (New York: Vintage,
1980), p. 56.
4. Boris Tomashevsky, 'Literature and Biography', in Readings in Russian Poetics, ed.
Ladislaw Matejka and Krystyna Pomorska (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1971), p. 55.
5. Robert C. Allen and Douglas Gomery, Film History: Theory and Practice (New York:
Knopf, 1985), pp. 67-108.
6. See Bordwell, The Films ofCarl-Theodor Dreyer (Berkeley: University of California Press,
1981), pp. 9-24.
7. Quoted in Ozu Yasujiro wo yomu [Reading Yasujiro Ozu] (Tokyo: Firuma Atosha,
1982), p. 37.
8. Tadao Sato, Ozu Yasujiro no geijutsu [The Art of Yasujiro Ozu] vol. 2 (Tokyo: Asahi
Shinbunsha, 1979), pp. 211-14.
9. Shimba lida, 'Talking about People: Yasujiro Ozu', Film [UK] no. 36 (Summer 1963):
p. 9.
10. Quoted in Sato, Ozu no geijutsu vol. 2, p. 67.
11. 'Ozu on Ozu: The Talkies,' Cinema [USA] vol. 6, no. 1 (1970): p. 4.
12. Quoted in Ozu wo yomu, p. 39.
13. lida, 'Talking about People': p. 9.
14. Komatsu Kitamura, quoted in Tadao Sato, Ozu Yasujiro no geijutsu vol. 1 (Tokyo: Asahi
Shinbunsha, 1978), pp. 195-6.
15. Quoted in Ikite wa mita keredo [I Lived, But...: A Biography of Yasujiro Ozu], film
produced by Shochiku Ltd., 1984.
16. On the many meanings of edokko, see Kohiro Yuchiro, 'Edo: The City on the Plain', in
Tokyo: Form and Spirit, ed. Mildred Friedman (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center/New
York: Abrams, 1986), p. 44.
17. Yasujiro Ozu,'How I Became a Film Director', in The Masters ofJapanese Cinema, ed. and
trans. Leonard Schrader (unpub. ms., Pacific Film Archive, n.d.), p. 242.
18. Tadao Sato, 'The Art of Yasujiro Ozu (6)', The Study of the History of the Cinema no. 9
(1977): p. 96.
19. Ozu wo yomu, p. 19.
20. Shinbi lida, 'Filmmaking in America and Japan', in L. Schrader, ed., Masters, p. 241.
21. Shinbi lida, Fuyuhiko Kitagawa, and Seiji Mizumachi, 'Entertainment and the Eighth
Art', in L. Schrader, ed., Masters, p. 228.
22. Ozu wo yomu, p. 59.
23. Quoted in Ozu wo yomu, pp. 19-20.
24. Tadao Sato, 'The Art of Yasujiro Ozu (7)', The Study of the History of the Cinema no. 10
(1977): p. 94.
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