Images: Ozu Yasujirō and Noda Kōgo: Filmmaking Accomplices

Noda Kōgo (left) and Ozu Yasujirō (at center) enjoy the natural environs in Tateshina. (Courtesy of the Noda Kōgo Memorial Tateshina Writers Research Institute)

Yamanouchi Michiko is executor to the Shin-Unkosō, where Noda Kōgo’s personal archive is stored. (© Kodera Kei)

The rustic Shin-Unkosō. (© Kodera Kei)

From the left: Ozu Yasujirō, Noda Kōgo, his wife Shizu, and their daughter Reiko. (Courtesy of the Noda Kōgo Memorial Tateshina Writers Research Institute)

Ozu and Noda used to accompany their creative moments with Daiya Kiku sake. (© Kodera Kei)

Fujimori Mitsuyoshi tells stories of Ozu in his retreat, Mugeisō. (© Kodera Kei)

From left to right, the original scripts from Early Summer, Tokyo Story, and An Autumn Afternoon, as exhibited in the Shin-Unkosō villa. (© Kodera Kei)

Reproductions of the Tateshina Diaries. (© Kodera Kei)

Ozu Yasujirō, at left, and Noda Kōgo in kimono. (Courtesy of the Noda Kōgo Memorial Tateshina Writers Research Institute)