Directed by Yasujiro Ozu

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"For those of us who don't read kanji, or who struggle to make their way through Hasumi 's sentences, whose length rivals Proust or Henry James, this meticulous and precise version, in direct contact with the text, with a side, a maverick supplement, will be a landmark." * East Asia * "Hasumi's Directed by Yasujiro Ozu is a distinctive view of a much- discussed director, making this an overdue but very timely and welcome publication." * Cineaste * "Although Shiguehiko Hasumi is among the world's great critics and philosophers of cinema, his writings are strangely hard to come by in the Anglosphere. This makes the University of California Press publication of his Directed by Yasujiro Ozu, translated by Ryan Cook and deftly contextualized in an introduction by Aaron Gerow, a publishing event of immense proportions. . . .It is sure to change standard Anglophone interpretations of this central figure in the history of cinema." * Gagosian Quarterly * "Highly recommended." * CHOICE * "The English that [Ryan Cook] has produced is extremely readable and elegant, the claims and arguments cogent . . . .It is a boon to have this important book finally available in English." * The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory * "Not only for its insightful, inventive, and instructive positions on Ozu's films, but as a general framework for approaching any text, this English translation of Hasumi's writing introduces a revitalising perspective, which serves as an antidote to a critical landscape littered with hopelessly abstracted writing, ensnared within thickets of endlessly iterative conceptual constructs." * Alphaville Journal *