Director Yasujiro Ozu collaborated with screenwriter Kogo Noda on twenty-seven films, including THE FLAVOR OF GREEN TEA OVER RICE, with the pair often working out of a small house in the mountains of Tateshina, Japan. The following program, created by filmmaker Daniel Raim in 2019, explores their working relationship and writing process.
The following interview with David Bordwell, author of “Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema,” was shot in May 2019.