I Lived, But...

Oct 29, 1983

2h 3m

★ 6.5

Overview

An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both interviews and Ozu-related locations) shot by Ozu's long-time camera-man (who came out of retirement to work on this). Surprisingly (or perhaps not), it focuses less on Ozu's accomplishments as a film-maker than on his impact on the lives of the people he worked with..

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Shochiku

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Cast

Self

Keiko Kishi

Self

Yōko Tsukasa

Self

Ineko Arima

Self

Chikage Awashima

Self

Mariko Okada

Self

Haruko Sugimura

Self

Mutsuko Sakura

Self

Eijirō Tōno

Self

Chishū Ryū

Self

Nobuo Nakamura

Self

Fujio Suga

Self

Shinichirō Mikami

“This film was a gift to me. I make no claims for it, nor do I offer any apologies. It comes from work on The Thoughts That Once We Had. There was one shot we had to cut whose loss I particularly regretted. It was a shot of a train pulling into Tokyo Station from Ozu’s The Only Son (1936). So I decided to make a film around this shot, an anthology of train arrivals. It comprises 26 scenes or shots from movies, 1904-2015. It has a simple serial structure: each black & white sequence in the first half rhymes with a color sequence in the second half. Thus the first shot and the final shot show trains arriving at stations in Japan from a low camera height. In the first shot (The Only Son), the train moves toward the right; in the last shot, it moves toward the left. A bullet train has replaced a steam locomotive. So after all these years, I’ve made another structural film, although that was not my original intention.”

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