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Wide Angle, 2025

The Ozu Diaries

오즈 야스지로의 일기小津ダイアリー

Director Daniel RAIM

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The Ozu Diaries is a documentary about the life and cinematic world of Japanese master filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu. Daniel Raim, who has created around 30 documentaries on great filmmakers for The Criterion Collection and Criterion Channel, explores Ozu’s inner world and artistic roots using rare materials provided by Ozu’s family and the Shochiku Studio archives, such as diaries, notebooks, letters, drawings, photographs, and home movies. Along with Ozu’s own words, the voices of his contemporaries and great directors—including Kyoko Kagawa, Wim Wenders, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and Luc Dardenne—are added. The film goes beyond a simple biographical recounting, evolving into a meditation on the question, “What is cinema?” It is an attempt to sit alongside Ozu across time, to understand his life and perspective, serving as both an intimate record seeking the essence of cinema and a beautiful tribute to Ozu.

Programme note by JO Ji-hoon

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The Ozu Diaries 1 — 2025 Adama Films; photo: Shochiku Co., Ltd.

The Ozu Diaries 2 — 2025 Adama Films; photo: Shochiku Co., Ltd.

The Ozu Diaries 3 — 2025 Adama Films; photo: Shochiku Co., Ltd.

The Ozu Diaries 4 — 2025 Adama Films; photo: Shochiku Co., Ltd.

The Ozu Diaries 5 — 2025 Adama Films; photo: Shochiku Co., Ltd.

Screenings3

Sun, 09/21

16:3019:15

LOTTE CINEMA Centum City 2

286Guest Q&AKE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue

Mon, 09/22

15:0017:45

CGV Centum City 6

362Guest Q&AKE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue

Tue, 09/23

18:3020:50

CGV Centum City 1

422KE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue

Film details

Director: Daniel RAIM
Original title: 小津ダイアリー
Country/Region: United States, Japan
Year: 2025
Length: 140min
Section: Wide Angle
Edition: Busan International Film Festival 2025, No. 30
Original language: Japanese
Format: DCP, Color
Selection: Official selection
Elsewhere: Festival page Letterboxd IMDb Wikidata TMDB Douban

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Director: Daniel RAIM
Producer: Yuki MACHIDA
Cast: Yasujiro OZU, Kogo NODA, Wim WENDERS, Kyoko KAGAWA, Kiyoshi KUROSAWA, Luc DARDENNE, TSAI Ming-Liang, Akiko OZU, Koi OHORI, Kie NAKAI
Screenplay: Daniel RAIM
Cinematography: Koichi FURUYA
Editing: Daniel RAIM
Music: Dave LEBOLT
Production company: Adama Films
World sales: Adama Films

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