Shochiku Working On Something Special For Yasujiro Ozu’s 110th Anniversary

With the 110^th anniversary of the director’s birth, iconic Japanese studio Shochiku is planning something rather special in honor of legendary filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu.

Screen Daily is reporting that the company is planning a major restoration and screening project, which will start off on the 14^th of this month at the Berlinale. The festival will play host to a special screening of a newly restored print of the auteur’s Tokyo Story, the first in a run of screenings that will be announced soon. There will also be a series of screenings in Japan in December along with a traveling retrospective, similar to the recent Keisuke Kinoshita retrospective that kind of blew the minds of fans worldwide.

Oh, and April will see the release of a book looking at Ozu’s filmmaking style and aesthetic, that will arrive along with a collection of Blu-rays. If 2012 was the year of Hitchcock, 2013 is appearing to be the year of Ozu, and frankly, I can’t wait to see what comes of all of this.

Source Screen Daily