Considered by many film critics as the master of Japanese Cinema, director Ozu Yasujiro still inspires filmmakers both within and outside of Japan. The Cinema of Ozu presents new perspectives on Ozu's aesthetic sensibility and his influence on global art cinema directors.

Introduction Jinhee Choi Branding Ozu 1. Watch Again! Look Well! Look! David Bordwell 2. Ozu, The Ineffable Darrell W Davis 3. Ozu to Asia via Hasumi Aaron Gerow 4. A Dialogue with 'Memory' in Hou Hsiao-hsien's Café Lumière - Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano 5. Ozuesque as a Sensibility: or On the notion of Influence Jinhee Choi Historicizing Ozu 6. A New Form of Silent Cinema: Intertitles and Interlocutions in Ozu Yasujiro's Late Silent Films Michael Raine 7. Ozu and the Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Cinematography in There Was a Father (Chichi ariki, 1942)Daisuke Miyao 8. Modernity, Shoshimin Films and the Proletarian-Film Movement: Ozu in Dialogue with Vertov Yuki Takinami 9. Laughing in the Shadows of Empire: Humor in Ozu's Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941) Junji Yoshida Tracing Ozu 10. Autumn Afternoons: Negotiating the Ghost of Ozu in Iguchi Nami's Dogs and Cats - Adam Bingham 11. Playing the Holes: Notes on the Ozuesque Gags Manuel Garin & Albert Elduque 12. Rhythm, Texture, Moods: Ozu Yasujiro, Claire Denis and a Vision of a Post-colonial Aesthetic Kate Taylor-Jones 13. Wenders Travels with Ozu Mark Betz 14. Look? Optical / Sound Situations and Interpretation: Ozu - (Deleuze) - Kiarostami David Deamer 15. Sparse or Slow: Ozu and Joanna Hogg William Brown

"One of the many strengths of this collection is that it examines the concept taking into account both Ozu and his international influence. The book features an almost dizzying array of major scholars in the field." -- David Desser, Chapman University, Monumenta Nipponica "A timely intervention by an impressive array of scholars that recalibrates Ozu Yasujiros's oeuvre and the notion of the 'Ozuesque' sensibility for the globalised cinema world of the twenty-first century." --Isolde Standish, Emerita Reader in Film and Media studies, SOAS University of London "There will never be a definitive book on Ozu Yasujiro, and this impressive collection proves it. That's because the director's work is so wondrously complex-so baffling with cinematic riches-that the powerful analyses of these writers are revelatory while never giving the sense that anyone has had the last word. On the contrary, I expect this project to mark a new era in the endless study of Ozu." --Markus Nornes, Professor of Asian Cinema, University of Michigan

Selling point: Offers an in-depth look into the notion of influence Selling point: Introduces new theories about Ozu's effect on international directors Selling point: Explores the new theoretical concept of sensibility

Jinhee Choi is Reader in Film Studies at King's College London. Her previous books include Cine-Ethics: Ethical Dimensions of Film Theory, Practice and Spectatorship (2013) and The South Korean Film Renaissance: Local Hitmakers, Global Provocateurs (2010).

Selling point: Offers an in-depth look into the notion of influence Selling point: Introduces new theories about Ozu's effect on international directors Selling point: Explores the new theoretical concept of sensibility