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How Yasujirō Ozu Learned to Use Color in His Masterful Films: A New Every Frame a Painting Video Essay

Open Culture 07 May 2026 13m ago
How Yasujirō Ozu Learned to Use Color in His Masterful Films: A New Every Frame a Painting Video Essay
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Yasujirō Ozu was born in 1903, and made films from the late nineteen-twenties up until his death in 1963. Though not an especially long life, it spanned Japan’s pre- and postwar eras, meaning that in many ways, it ended in a very different country than it began. Not that you’d know it from Ozu’s films, […]
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