the adult world
with their naive and honest gaze,
what do they feel?
The feeling
ofbeing disillusioned with life
is already apparent
throughout this film.
Yasujiro Ozu was just 30 years old.
''You say we must become great men,
but you're not.''
''Why must you bow down
to Taro's father?''
''Because his father is an executive.''
''Then you're just a coward.''
Yasujiro Ozu was born
on December 12, 1903, in Mannen,
in the Fukagawa section of Tokyo,
the second son
of Toranosuke and Asae Ozu.
The Ozu family ran a wholesale
fertilizer plant named Iwasaya.
In 1 909, he entered
public kindergarten in Fukagawa.
In 1910, he attended
Jinjo elementary school.
He liked to draw pictures.
In 1913, leaving his father
behind in Tokyo,
the rest of the family moved to the city
of Matsuzaka in Mie prefecture.
Yasujiro entered fourth grade
at the Matsuzaka public school.
MATSUZAKA CITY
His father believed that children
should be educated in the country.
In my opinion,
while our father
was living in Tokyo,
he really missed the country.
SHI NICHI OZU - OLDER BROTHER
He was very homesick,
and he longed to have a country lifestyle.
That was the reason, I guess.
He probably thought
Tokyo was no place for children
and that there were
too many bad influences around.
He might have felt that way.
And my brother was no model child.
Bad influences
would have had free reign.
Our father knew this.
He knew his sons very well after all.
In 1916, Ozu entered high school
and started living in the dormitory
of the Mie public boarding school.
So back then, he was-
You know those conduct reports.
The teachers get together
and grade the students.
They come up with something.
My brother probably got bad grades.
M. OKUYAMA, S. KEI KOI N, S. NAKAI
HIGH SCHOOL FRI ENDS
In his fifth year ofhigh school,
Ozu was almost expelled, wasn't he?
Well, it wasn't quite that serious.
He wrote this letter
to a younger student.
It caused a lot of trouble.
The superintendent shouted at him.
TOWN OF KAWASAKI
He was either suspended
or put on probation.
Later, after summer vacation,
the restrictions were lifted,
but he had to leave the dormitory,
with the added condition that
he come and go directly
between home and school.
When he came home,
our mother would write down
his arrival time and stamp his book.
He had to show it to a teacher
the next day, every day.
He soon got tired of all this.
He started writing down the time himself
and showing it to the teacher.
He called it his ''stamp book. ''
He used to carry it in his pocket,
along with a photo of Pearl White.
That's how he used to go to school.
He was almost expelled
from school, as I said,
but it wasn't all that serious.
My father used to say that Yasujiro
believed other people too easily,
that he was gullible,
and that he should be more careful.
Ozu was socially active
and had many friends.
His high school days
were important to him.
Looking back on that time,
he would later say,
I WOULD GLADLY RELIVE
MY MI DDLE SCHOOL DAYS.
''I read the novels of
Tanizaki and Akutagawa,
but I only went to see foreign movies.
It may sound snobby,
but I despised Japanese films,
which were so immature
compared to others.
FORMER SITE OF KANRAKUZA THEATER
Back in those days,
the movies just told simple stories
without any emotional depth.
Then I saw an

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