Thousand Years was very much influenced by a Japanese director called [Yasujiro] Ozu.

《千年善祷》很受日本导演小津安二郎的影响。

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Ozu himself hinted at a reservation: "This is one of my most melodramatic pictures."

小津自己给出了一个保留性的暗示：“这个是我最具有情节性的电影之一。”

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Yet Oshima's film can also be interpreted as a reinterpretation of and a riposte to Ozu.

然而大岛渚的影片也可以被解读为是对小津的重新诠释和回击。

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Its golden age of cinema had been largely built on the refined, pastoral calm of Mizoguchi Kenji and Ozu Yasujiro.

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This turbulent and grim family melodrama, from 1957, is steered away from the maudlin and given emotional depth and philosophical heft under the direction of Yasujiro Ozu.

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Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story, from 1953, is ranked third - bettering its 2002 placement at five - while Jean Renoir's La Regle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game) drops one place, from three to four.

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