Directing · Writing · 1903 to 1963

Yasujirō Ozu

Best rated: Late Spring (8.2)

Every film, by IMDb rating

The career

Yasujirō Ozu, directing career by IMDb rating5-film averagePeak eraLongest 7+ run

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192934 films1962

Current formLast 5: 7.86 vs career 7.57 (+0.29)

As a director, films with 1,000+ votes

Average

7.57

27 rated films

Vote weighted

7.61

bigger films count more

Median

7.7

half are better

Consistency

±0.38

rating spread

Career

34y

1929 to 1962

Total votes

221K

across every film

Best

8.2

Late Spring

Worst

7.7

The End of Summer

Newest first

Directing filmography

1962	An Autumn Afternoon	8.0	12,263
1961	The End of Summer	7.7	5,021
1960	Late Autumn	7.9	6,831
1959	Good Morning	7.8	12,737
1959	Floating Weeds	7.9	9,914
1958	Equinox Flower	7.8	5,522
1957	Tokyo Twilight	8.0	5,898
1956	Early Spring	7.7	4,372
1953	Tokyo Story	8.1	79,036
1952	The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice	7.6	4,533
1951	Early Summer	8.0	10,917
1950	The Munekata Sisters	7.4	1,516
1949	Late Spring	8.2	22,032
1948	A Hen in the Wind	7.4	2,286
1947	Record of a Tenement Gentleman	7.7	2,669
1942	There Was a Father	7.5	3,616
1941	The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family	7.2	1,683
1937	What Did the Lady Forget?	7.0	1,540
1936	The Only Son	7.7	4,668
1935	An Inn in Tokyo	7.4	1,864

Better together?

The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers.

Takes

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