Directed by Yasujiro Ozu

Shiguéhiko Hasumi (1936-) is a film and literary critic and scholar. He received his doctorate from the University of Paris, Sorbonne, and was the twenty-sixth president of the University of Tokyo (1997-2001). He has received numerous awards, including the Yomiuri Bungaku Award for Anti-Nihongoron (Han-Nihongoron, 1977), the Geijutsu Sensho Award for Portrait of a Mediocre Artist: On Maxime Du Camp (Bonʻyo na geijutsuka no shozo: Makushimu Dyu Kan-ron, 1988), and L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Commandeur from the French Ministry of Culture (1999). His many other works include Lectures on Hollywood Film History (Hariuddo eigashi kogi, 1993), Godard, Manet, Foucault (Godaru, Mane, Fuko, 2008), On Madame Bovary (Bovari fujin-ron, 2014), What Is a Shot? (Shotto to wa nani ka, 2022), and On John Ford (Jon Fodo-ron, 2022), all untranslated. Hasumi's productive relationships with influential filmmakers including Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Manoel de Oliveira, Theo Angelopoulos, Wim Wenders, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, Pedro Costa, Leos Carax, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Shinji Aoyama, and Ryusuke Hamaguchi are well documented.

Aaron Gerow is A. Whitney Griswold Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, and of Film and Media Studies, at Yale University. He is the author of Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925.
Ryan Cook is a film scholar, translator, and librarian. He completed a PhD in Japanese film history at Yale University and has taught at Yale, Harvard, and Emory University.