There is no need to say much about the image of Hara Setsuko in Ozu's films. A gentle and intellectual female character, she is very caring for her family, relatives, friends, children, and a good daughter, good mother, good sister, It is almost a representative of standard women in the hearts of a generation.
What I want to say is that in Ozu's films, several of them are about marrying a daughter. The background is that a big family will face the sadness of "disintegration" because of the daughter's marriage. Let's just say it is a kind of sadness. , maybe it is more of a fear that the relationship will fade, thinking that after the daughter gets married, the relationship will gradually become weak, unlike at home, where everyone has a lot of communication and dependence, and Once far from this home, there is no chance.
Behind Ozu's lens, I seem to see Ozu's penetration and understanding of the internal relationship of the family, accurate grasp of the trends of various family affairs and moderate adjustment of feelings, never over-exaggerating feelings, and not always being a bystander. Rather than expressing any emotion, the description and outline of intellectual women also seem to represent Ozu's attitude towards women.
Love for this world, yes, only with love and gratitude for this world, can there be such works.
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