The Ozu Diaries
THE OZU DIARIES
(c)2025 Adama Films
- Release Date
- TBD
- Running Time
- 140 min
- Genre
- Documentary
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- DCP
- Subtitle
- ,
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
[ Cast ]
- KUROSAWA Kiyoshi
- Wim WENDERS
- Luc DARDENNE
- SHIROSAWA Isao
- TSAI Ming-liang
- KAGAWA Kyoko
- OZU Akiko
- YAMANOUCHI Shizuo
[ Staff ]
- Daniel RAIM ── Screenplay
- Daniel RAIM ── Editor
- FURUYA Koichi ── Director of Photography
[ Story ]
This cinematic journey explores the inner world of Japanese master filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu, drawing from his private diaries, wartime notebooks, letters, interviews, photographs, and never-before-seen home movies. Through Ozu's own words, the film traces how Ozu transformed personal loss and wartime trauma into enduring masterpieces such as Early Summer, Tokyo Story, and An Autumn Afternoon.
Other films introduced in the documentary are Days of Youth, That Night's Wife, Tokyo Chorus, I Was Born, But..., Woman of Tokyo, Dragnet Girl, A Story of Floating Weeds, The Only Son, What Did the Lady Forget?, The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family, There Was a Father, The Record of a Tenement Gentleman, A Hen in the Wind, Late Spring, Equinox Flower, Good Morning.
[ Film Festivals, Awards ]
2025 Venice International Film Festival
2025 Busan International Film Festival
2025 Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival
2025 AFI Fest in Hollywood
2025 Tokyo International Film Festival
2025 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival
2026 To Save and Project: MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation
2026 Santa Barbara International Film Festival
2026 Hong Kong International Film Festival
2026 Wisconsin Film Festival
2026 Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
2026 Saint Jordi Barcelona Film Festival
[ Contact (International) ]
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