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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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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Ozu is an auteur in the traditional sense: one whose style and themes are reiterated with sublime consistency in film after film.

在传统意义上，小津是一位个人风格独特的导演：其风格和主题在一部又一部的影片中，以一种高度的一致性反复重现。

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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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