"Otsu Yasu Ni Ro Nikki" Wo Yomu Mujo to Tawamureta Kyosho (Chikuma Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Yasujiro Ozu was a diligent diary-keeper. In his diary, he carefully recorded his daily routine, such as "morning bath" and "nap," the people he met that day, and the places he visited, and at times, he expressed his feelings of weakness in a straightforward manner. Through careful reading of the 25 surviving diaries, magazine articles from the same period, and a vast amount of other materials, this masterful critical biography vividly portrays Ozu as a "human being" who continued to capture the impermanence of daily life.

小津安二郎はまめに日記を付ける人であった。「朝風呂」「昼寝」のような何でもない日常や、その日出会った人、行った場所が丁寧に記され、時には弱音がまっすぐに吐露される。現存する25冊の日記と同時代の雑誌記事をはじめとする膨大な資料を丹念に読み解くことで、日々の生活の無常を撮り続けた巨匠の“人間・小津”としての姿を鮮やかに描き出した傑作評伝。