Recorded in New York City in 2002, this commentary features Japanese film expert Donald Richie, author of “A Hundred Years of Japanese Film.”
This conversation about Yasujiro Ozu and his working methods, produced by the Shochiku film company on the centenary of Ozu’s birth, features a few of his collaborators—child actor and sound and editing assistant Kojiro Suematsu, assistant cameraman Takashi Kawamata, and producer Shizuo Yamanouchi.