Chigo incident Now, I must mention an incident that happened to Ozu while he was living his daily life as described above. There was a line written in his diary on October 17, 1918 that seemed to foretell that incident. Today I will leave …

Dormitory life When he was in elementary school, he was a well-rounded, honest son of a wealthy family with excellent grades, but what were Ozu's junior high school days like when he turned into a rough person who often received discipline…

Chapter 2 Youth Rough, but kind hearted, and innocent In April 1916, Ozu entered Mie Prefectural 4th Junior High School (which was renamed Ujiyamada Junior High School while Ozu was a student) and began living in the school boarding house …

Memories of railroad The railroad crossing between Ozu residence and the elementary school in Matsusaka was a light railway. Light railways are generally small-scale railways that use narrow 762mm tracks, and are characterized by the fact …

Original scenery of family separation In “I Was Born, But….”, a track runs in front of the garden of the main character's family's new home, and the brothers of the family walk along this track every morning to go to the elementary school …

A transfer pupil Ozu Yasujiro repeatedly depicted moving in his films. No other filmmaker has been as obsessed with depicting moving as Ozu. Moving can be said to be one of the core themes of Ozu's films. The theme of moving was taken up a…

Sickly child Wealthy days at a magnificent residence in Fukagawa were suddenly cut short in March 1913 when the entire family moved. The new address was 785 Kaibana, Matsusaka Town, Mie Prefecture (present-day Atago-machi, Matsusaka City).…

Part I: Ozu Yasujiro in his youth Ozu Yasujiro was born in Fukagawa Ward, Tokyo on December 12, 1903, and moved to Matsusaka-Town in Mie Prefecture, where his father Toranosuke was from, in March 1913. He was nine years old. As soon as Ozu…

Introduction ② -continued from file 1- After the Matsusaka days, Ozu left Tokyo for a long time during the Sino-Japanese War and when he was dispatched to Singapore as an army civilian employee. Ozu first served on the Chinese battle front…