Editing Yasujirō Ozu (section)

===Postwar===
Ozu returned to Japan in February 1946, and moved back in with his mother, who had been staying with his sister in [[Noda, Chiba|Noda]] in [[Chiba Prefecture|Chiba prefecture]]. He reported for work at the Ofuna studios on 18 February 1946. His first film released after the war was ''[[Record of a Tenement Gentleman]]'' in 1947. Around this time, the Chigasakikan<ref group="n">茅ケ崎館</ref> [[Ryokan (Japanese inn)|Ryokan]] became Ozu's favoured location for scriptwriting.

[[File:Grave of Yasujiro Ozu.jpg|thumb|Ozu's grave at [[Engaku-ji]], [[Kamakura]] in 2018]]

''[[Tokyo Story]]'' was the last script that Ozu wrote at Chigasakikan. In later years, Ozu and Noda used a small house in the mountains at [[Tateshina, Nagano|Tateshina]] in [[Nagano Prefecture]] called Unkosō<ref group="n">雲呼荘</ref> to write scripts, with Ozu staying in a nearby house called Mugeisō.<ref group="n">無芸荘</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Shindo|2004|pp=31–32}}</ref>

Ozu's films from the late 1940s onward were favourably received, and the entries in the so-called "Noriko trilogy" (starring [[Setsuko Hara]]) of ''[[Late Spring]]'' (1949), ''[[Early Summer]]'' (1951) and ''[[Tokyo Story]]'' (1953) are among his most acclaimed works, with ''Tokyo Story'' widely considered his masterpiece.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Parkinson|first1=David|title=Yasujiro Ozu – The Noriko Trilogy|url=http://www.moviemail.com/scripts/article.pl?articleID=150|website=MovieMail|publisher=MovieMail Ltd|access-date=19 May 2015}}</ref> ''Late Spring'', the first of these films, was the beginning of Ozu's commercial success and the development of his cinematography and storytelling style. These three films were followed by his first colour film, ''[[Equinox Flower]],'' in 1958, ''[[Floating Weeds]]'' in 1959 and ''[[Late Autumn (1960 film)|Late Autumn]]'' in 1960. In addition to Noda, other regular collaborators included [[cinematographer]] Yuharu Atsuta, along with the actors [[Chishū Ryū]], [[Setsuko Hara]] and [[Haruko Sugimura]].

His work was only rarely shown overseas before the 1960s; however, ''Tokyo Story'' gained recognition after winning the Sutherland Trophy at the 1958 London Film Festival. Ozu's last film was ''[[An Autumn Afternoon]],'' which was released in 1962. He then directed the television drama {{Ill|After the End of Youth|ja|青春放課後}} (1963), co-writing it with novelist [[Ton Satomi]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2013-10-10 |title=小津安二郎監督「幻のドラマ」放送へ |trans-title=Director Yasujirō Ozu’s 'Lost Drama' to Be Broadcast |url=http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20131010/k10015170161000.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131010052932/http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20131010/k10015170161000.html |archive-date=2013-10-10 |access-date=2025-03-14 |work=[[NHK|NHK News Web]] |language=ja}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Ma |first=Kevin |date=2013-10-11 |title=Rediscovered Ozu TV drama to air |url=http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/rediscovered-ozu-tv-drama-to-air |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022155814/http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/rediscovered-ozu-tv-drama-to-air |archive-date=2013-10-22 |access-date=2025-03-14 |magazine=[[Film Business Asia]]}}</ref>

He served as president of the [[Directors Guild of Japan]] from 1955 until his death in 1963.<ref name="Nenpyo">{{cite web|url=http://www.dgj.or.jp/about_g/chronology.html|title=Nihon eiga kantoku kyōkai nenpyō|publisher=Nihon eiga kantoku kyōkai|language=ja|access-date=17 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100726084327/http://www.dgj.or.jp/about_g/chronology.html|archive-date=26 July 2010|df=dmy-all}}</ref> In 1959 he became the first recipient from the field of cinema to win the Japan Art Academy Prize.

Ozu was known for his drinking. He and Noda measured the progression of their scripts by how many bottles of [[sake]] they had drunk. Ozu never married.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/49594|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120803012819/http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/49594|archive-date=3 August 2012|last=Rayns|first=Tony|title=Ozu Yasujiro, tofu maker
|year=2010|access-date=19 February 2019}}</ref> He lived with his mother until she died in 1961.<ref>Darrell William Davis, 'Ozu's mother,' in David Desser (ed.), ''Ozu's Tokyo Story,'' [[Cambridge University Press]] 1997 {{isbn|978-0-521-48435-0}} pp.76-100, p.95.</ref>

A heavy smoker, Ozu died of [[throat cancer]] in 1963 on his sixtieth birthday. The grave he shares with his mother at [[Engaku-ji]] in [[Kamakura, Kanagawa|Kamakura]] bears no name—just the character ''[[Mu (negative)|mu]]'' ("nothingness").<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.easterwood.org/ozu/gravesite/directions2.html|last=Easterwood|first=Kurt |title=Yasujiro Ozu's gravesite in Kita-Kamakura: How to get there (Part Two). |year=2004|access-date=20 August 2009 }}</ref>