About the Author

Woojeong Joo received his PhD degree from University of Warwick and is currently teaching in Japan-in-Asia Cultural Studies Program at Nagoya University, Japan.

Reviews

Joo is a perceptive viewer of Ozu's films, particularly skilled at the structural analysis of narrative and character.[...] a major contribution to the field.--Michael Raine, Western University "Monumenta Nipponica"

This is a groundbreaking publication that is going to make a significant contribution to English language scholarship on one of the most important directors in international film history. Woojeong Joo's patient and attentive focus on the shifting stylistic and contextual elements of Ozu's vast filmography uncovers a textured and highly nuanced tapestry of Japanese social experience. This book is a wise riposte to Paul Schrader's misleading dictum that 'in the everyday nothing is expressive, all is coldness.' Far from it, Joo argues. For Ozu, the everyday was the key location where form, feeling and history found their most meaningful and enduring coalescence.--Dr Alastair Phillips, University of Warwick

Woojeong Joo's new study of Ozu is one of the most precise and nuanced accounts of the director's cinema to date...an admirable book.'--Alexander Jacoby "Sight and Sound"