Yasujiro Ozu (1903--1963)

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the scenes to tell us that the scene and the setting
has changed. usualy these shots are longer than normaly it should be. One
of the very important style of Ozu is he did not obey to the 180 degree
rule infact he used all the 360 degree space. Ozu orbitted the camera
around the characters and he broke down the 360 degree space into
multiples of 45 degrees. He shots characters from 90 degree poin of
viewes and in many differnt directions. This is offcourse unusual for the
viewers but they getalong with the story so well and that is tha magic of
Ozu. If you break the 180 degree rule the actors facing each other will
look like they are looking to the same direction, but Ozu found a solution
to it, he was placing characters in identical positions between and
within the shots so with his style there was no problem. One thing that i
don't understand in Ozu's films are that some objects change positions in
some scenes on their own like bottels they sometimes come closer or ...

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