Ozu in Color (Every Frame a Painting)

For TCM, Every Frame a Painting’s Taylor Ramos & Tony Zhou tell us how legendary Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu made the transition to color filmmaking. His first color film was Equinox Flower in 1958 and it took a couple of films for Ozu to work out how to best employ color. When you watch later Ozu films, you’re struck by how similar two people can be. How often one place resembles another, how