Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou take apart Yasujiro Ozu’s move into colour, which began with Equinox Flower in 1958 and took him a couple of films to work out. Their argument is that colour became one more way to build the pattern his films are made of — how alike two people can be, how one room resembles another, how a life keeps coming round to the same shape. Made for TCM.
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