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Diaries by film director Ozu, screenwriter

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Japanese film director Yasujiro Ozu (L) and his main screenwriter, Kogo Noda. A book based on diaries by Ozu and Noda that detail their collaborative process when they worked on movie scripts in Tateshina Kogen in Nagano Prefecture, will be published in late July 2013.

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Yoji Yamada to shoot film based on 'Tokyo Story'

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese film director Yoji Yamada takes part in a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 13, 2010. The 79-year-old director, who will mark 50 years next year since his debut, said he will shoot a film ''Tokyo Kazoku (family)'' based on Yasujiro Ozu's masterpiece ''Tokyo Story,'' shifting the setting to the present day.

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Ozu's movies shown at N.Y. film festival

NEW YORK, United States - Japanese actress Kyoko Kagawa speaks at a news conference Oct. 4, the same day Yasujiro Ozu's movies were shown at the 41st New York Film Festival at the Lincoln Center to mark 100 years since the late Japanese director was born. Kagawa appeared in Tokyo Story, one of his movies.

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Kyoto brothers celebrate life of Nishijin art

KYOTO, Japan - Two artisan brothers in Kyoto -- Itaro Yamaguchi (R), 101, and his brother Yasujiro, 99 -- will celebrate their lifelong careers dedicated to Kyoto's famed Nishijin textile, opening their first joint exhibition in December in Tokyo. The exhibition will feature about 50 works, including ''Genji'' scrolls and Noh costumes.

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Babel (2006)

Koji Yakusho Characters: Yasujiro Wataya Film: Babel (USA/FR/MEX 2006) Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu 23 May 2006 Date: 23 May 2006

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Tokyo Story film (1953)

Movie Scene Film: Tokyo Story (1957) Director: Yasujiro Ozu 03 November 1953 Die Reise nach Tokio (Tokio monogatari, JP 1953, Regie: Yasujiro Ozu) Szene, Japan, Japaner, in japanischem japanisches Restaurant, Kimono Date: 03-Nov-53

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YASUJIRO OZU JAPANESE FILM DIRECTOR

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Acting legend Setsuko Hara of Ozu film "Tokyo Story" dies at 95

Photo taken Nov. 26, 2015, shows a stand set up at a movie theater in Tokyo screening a film featuring deceased Setsuko Hara. It was reported the previous day the legendary actress, who starred in "Tokyo Story" and other films by Yasujiro Ozu and other prominent Japanese directors, died in September at the age of 95. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese film industry mourns acting legend Setsuko Hara

Photo taken Nov. 26, 2015, shows Takemuraya, a Japanese-style inn in the western Japanese city of Onomichi, where the legendary actress Setsuko Hara stayed while filming for "Tokyo Story," a 1953 Yasujiro Ozu movie. Hara died of pneumonia on Sept. 5, 2015, at a hospital in Kanagawa Prefecture at age 95. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Acting legend Setsuko Hara of Ozu film "Tokyo Story" dies at 95

Photo taken Nov. 26, 2015, shows a special section of publications related to the late actress Setsuko Hara at a Tokyo bookstore. It was reported the previous day the legendary actress, who starred in "Tokyo Story" and other films by Yasujiro Ozu and other prominent Japanese directors, died in September at the age of 95. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Acting legend Setsuko Hara of Ozu film "Tokyo Story" dies at 95

Photo taken in 1960 shows legendary actress Setsuko Hara, who starred in the Yasujiro Ozu movie "Tokyo Story." Hara died of pneumonia on Sept. 5, 2015, at a hospital in Kanagawa Prefecture at age 95, according to her family. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Late movie director Ozu's monument unveiled in ceremony

Actress Fujiko Yamamoto (far R) and other people concerned attend an unveiling ceremony for a monument dedicated to the late famed movie director Yasujiro Ozu in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, western Japan, on March 24, 2015. Ozu frequented Tsu in his boyhood days. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese film industry mourns acting legend Setsuko Hara

Photo taken in February 1959 shows legendary actress Setsuko Hara who died of pneumonia on Sept. 5, 2015, at a hospital in Kanagawa Prefecture at age 95. She was the heroine in golden-age Japanese movies including the Yasujiro Ozu works "Tokyo Story" in 1953 and "Late Spring" in 1949, as well as in "The Green Mountains" directed by Tadashi Imai in 1949, "El Idiota" by Akira Kurosawa in 1951 and "Repast" by Naruse Mikio in 1951. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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A distant view of the city of Kobe

View of Kobe harbour from Mt. Suwa. Mid-Meiji Period. This is the same as photograph #4485, although the tinting of the buildings is different. The house surrounded by walls on the right of the main street running north-south is the residence of Kodera Yasujiro. The City of Kobe acquired this house in 1941 and named it Sorakuen. Yasujiro was a retainer of the Kuki family in the Sanda feudal domain. His first son, Kenkichi, became the first elected mayor of Kobe City in 1947.==Date:unknown, Place:Kobe, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number96‐46‐0]

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Mt. Suwa,Kobe

Rokko Mountain Range and Mt. Suwa seen from the south. Present-day Chuo Ward. The park on the right is the residence of Kodera Yasujiro (present-day Sorakuen). The building on the hillside is the restaurant Tokiwaro. A group of French scientists succeeded in observing the Venus eclipse of the sun in 1874 from the area above. A commemorative monument was later erected, and the site came to be referred to as Kinseidai (Venus Hill).==Date:unknown, Place:Kobe, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number79‐10‐0]

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Yoji Yamada to shoot film based on 'Tokyo Story'

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese film director Yoji Yamada takes part in a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 13, 2010. The 79-year-old director, who will mark 50 years next year since his debut, said he will shoot a film ''Tokyo Kazoku (family)'' based on Yasujiro Ozu's masterpiece ''Tokyo Story,'' shifting the setting to the present day. (Kyodo)

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Ozu's movies shown at N.Y. film festival

NEW YORK, United States - Japanese actress Kyoko Kagawa speaks at a news conference Oct. 4, the same day Yasujiro Ozu's movies were shown at the 41st New York Film Festival at the Lincoln Center to mark 100 years since the late Japanese director was born. Kagawa appeared in Tokyo Story, one of his movies. (Kyodo)

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Kyoto brothers celebrate life of Nishijin art

KYOTO, Japan - Two artisan brothers in Kyoto -- Itaro Yamaguchi (R), 101, and his brother Yasujiro, 99 -- will celebrate their lifelong careers dedicated to Kyoto's famed Nishijin textile, opening their first joint exhibition in December in Tokyo. The exhibition will feature about 50 works, including ''Genji'' scrolls and Noh costumes. (Kyodo)