Not Ozu’s best, but quite charming.

Kind of amusing to see that Ozu is said to have been an influence on Martin Scorsese. In Roger Ebert’s new book on Scorsese, the director discusses his differences with his screenwriter Paul Schrader, one being that Schrader was a huge fan of Ozu (and even wrote a book about him) while it took Scorsese forever to get into him. If there is anything in Scorsese’s work that brings Ozu to mind, I’m not sure it was the director’s intent, or that he was conscious of it.