How “Tokyo Story” Challenged the Rules of Hollywood

Celebrated film critic Andrew Sarris, though not the first to conceptualise auteur theory, was certainly a prominent figure in its development. He argued that a director must exhibit technical competence, a distinguishable style and create films with interior meanings to be defined as an auteur. However, the Hollywood studio system of the 1940s gave little independence to the directors of commissioned films, bringing an unprecedented attention to the emergence of international auteurs who were prepared to challenge conventional filmmaking. Yasujirō Ozu, amongst other postwar auteurs, demonstrated that Film could be an art and an expression of personal thought and feeling through his individual style and motifs. His filmmaking challenged the norms and restrictions of classical Hollywood cinema, and proved that Film could oppose the externality of spectacle and even perhaps the universal appeal of most movies. <a href="https://medium.com/@NathanLyubo/how-tokyo-story-challenged-the-rules-of-hollywood-cbd757dc368e">Read More</a>