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It was not until 1978 and the commercial release in Paris of Voyage à Tokyo, twenty-five years after its shooting, fifteen years after the death of its author (1963), that in France, Ozu would be discovered by a wider audience. The same year Paris Film distributed Le gout du Saké (1962), Fin d’automne (1960) and Dernier Caprice (1961), and the following year, Gosses de Tokyo (1932). Until the eighties in France, only these five films will circulate and make reference. Lino Micciché believes that at this time no European critic was able to analyze Ozu as a whole because none of them knew more than two-fifths of his work. To watch his films, you have to run the cinematheques of Europe or the United States. Also, when some specialists look at this cinema they do so by referring to second-hand information and turning to the most famous of his exegetes, …