Post-modern Ozu?
This film has Ozu written all over it. Surprisingly only one reviewer seems to have detected this.
could you be more specific?
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Admitedly I've only seen Tokyo Story by him but that I've been told that that movie showed Ozu's style quite well.
However when compared to The Taste Of Tea I didn't really see much comparrison other than family drama.
When I think of Ozu I think long static shots but I didn't really see that in The Taste Of Tea other than the shot of the family sitting on the porch.
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definitely its a modern-day ozu, but its a bit surrealistic version of ozu i suppose
shareDon't think about the comparison in terms of technique and cinematography, but rather subject matter. Both Taste of Tea and many of Ozu's films sought to capture the essence of the everyday lives of ordinary Japanese, without any forced melodrama or artificial plots. One person described the movie as "what Ozu would have shot if he dropped acid," which is pretty accurate IMO.
shareWas Ozu the only director who made films about family life in Japan? It seems pretty common for people to start name-dropping Ozu if a Japanese film depicts a Japanese family 'as is'...it's a fairly common theme, of which Ozu was famous for exploring but I think there would need to be more similarities than that to say it was influenced by Ozu.
shareI think the person who said that Ozu and Iishi are not similar in any way is wrong. First, while experimentation is important to Iishi, characters are just as important, as seen in the Taste of Tea. Funky Forest was a collaborative effort, so of course it would be different than his first two works. The Taste of Tea centers around the family, the characters, as did many of Ozu's works.
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I'd rather say it resembles japanese cinema. It's about a family, it's calm and... there are many movies like this in japan(except this one is surrealistic)
What reminded you of Ozu?
No doubt Ozu is an influential director but 'written all over it' seems farfetched. No offense.
Edited_My original comment wasn't nice :)
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Well, in the 10 years since, Ozu always seems to be mentioned in discussions of this film. I don't see it. The title alludes to Ozu and they're both Japanese films about families, with particular attention given to kids. That's where the similarities end, as far as I'm concerned.
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