Apparently, Director Yasujiro Ozu used to shoot all of his camera set-ups; whether just shooting around a family in a room & talking/conversing, or something like that. . . whatever else it may be (beyond perhaps "exteriors," or outside shots... like with say, "action!" which he did not use much of--unlike his counterpart countryman: Akira kurosawa~ ) at the height of a tatami mat. . & so I guess what this does, is give you the feeling, or sensation of being (whatever it is, I don't know like three and a half feet; off the floor ... & also creates something of an "illusion," of feeling, or being somewhat 'suspended,' in air). Or as one more modern / contemporary film maker put it - (i forget off hand if it was Wim Wenders? Wmbers?? . . . it's been too many years, but! ....
) this is the height at which the average Japanese person would be kneeling when at the dinner table, I guess or wherever else one might find them selves kneeling! (as such~)*> Usually these were going off memory from stationary, or static positions as well - as opposed to the more movement oriented style, which, as it has been said by someone a whole lot more intelligent, or intellectual and accomplished in the field than me (or, "I?") that this is one of the "basic elements of film grammar." So, in the case of Ozu, definitely without question on the Mount Rushmore of Japanese Cinema Film Directors; this is maybe more "the absence of..?" ( ; Tokyo Story is also a nother brilliant picture, or film. i tjink @ or around the turn of the Century, the Brit's; or The English, voted it into their Top Ten Movies of all time. . . & if there's one thing I know about the British --it's! ...(Welp? Gonna have to get back to you later on that one, too!) lol (;
) this is the height at which the average Japanese person would be kneeling when at the dinner table, I guess or wherever else one might find them selves kneeling! (as such~)*> Usually these were going off memory from stationary, or static positions as well - as opposed to the more movement oriented style, which, as it has been said by someone a whole lot more intelligent, or intellectual and accomplished in the field than me (or, "I?") that this is one of the "basic elements of film grammar." So, in the case of Ozu, definitely without question on the Mount Rushmore of Japanese Cinema Film Directors; this is maybe more "the absence of..?" ( ; Tokyo Story is also a nother brilliant picture, or film. i tjink @ or around the turn of the Century, the Brit's; or The English, voted it into their Top Ten Movies of all time. . . & if there's one thing I know about the British --it's! ...(Welp? Gonna have to get back to you later on that one, too!) lol (;
) & Master Seagull~ sp? (; 
