Yoshiko Okada
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Yoshiko Okada was a Japanese stage and film actress who defected to the Soviet Union in the 1930s.
Okada c. 1935
Yasujirō Ozu
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Yasujirō Ozu was a Japanese filmmaker. He began his career during the era of silent films, and his last films were made in colour in the early 1960s. Ozu first made a number of short comedies, before
Yoshiko Okada
…Sanae Takasugi and Yumeko Aizome, Okada had to settle for more mature and usually lesser roles but was still capable of star performances, including in Yasujirō Ozu's and Hiroshi Shimizu's first talkies. Until the Day We Meet Again, with only musical interludes and sound effects but no dialogue, couldn't make the…
Ozu in 1951
Yasujiro Ozu during the filming of Dragnet Girl 1933
Ozu's grave at Engaku-ji, Kamakura in 2018
Setsuko Hara (left) and Yasujirō Ozu (far right) on location of Tokyo Story (1953)