Yasujirō Ozu Quotes

Watching Fantasia (1940) I understood we could never win the war. "These people seem to like complications", I thought to myself.

Yasujirō Ozu

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• The communities and countries best at using energy to optimize a microclimate for human life are also the ones whose people have the longest average lifespans. Canada, Sweden, and Iceland - places with inhospitable winter weather - are frontrunners in sustaining human health and life.

  

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• Watching Fantasia (1940) I understood we could never win the war. "These people seem to like complications", I thought to myself.

  

  Yasujirō Ozu
  • War
  • Fantasia