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Tokyo-born Yasujiro Ozu was a movie buff from childhood, often playing hooky from school in order to see Hollywood movies in his local theatre. In 1923 he landed a job as a camera assistant at Shochiku Studios in Tokyo. Three years later, he was made an assistant director and directed his first film the next year, Zange no yaiba (1927). Ozu made thirty-five silent films, and a trilogy of youth comedies with serious overtones he turned out in the late 1920s and early 1930s placed him in the front ranks of Japanese directors. He made his first sound film in 1936, The Only Son (1936), but was drafted into the Japanese Army the next year, being posted to China for two years and then to Singapore when World War II started. Shortly before the war ended he was captured by British forces and spent six months in a P.O.W. facility. At war's end he went back to Shochiku, and his experiences during the war resulted in his making more serious, thoughtful films at a much slower pace than he had previously. His most famous film, Tokyo Story (1953), is generally considered by critics and film buffs alike to be his "masterpiece" and is regarded by many as not only one of Ozu's best films but one of the best films ever made. He also turned out such classics of Japanese film as The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952), Floating Weeds (1959) and An Autumn Afternoon (1962).
Ozu, who never married and lived with his mother all his life, died of cancer in 1963, two years after she passed.- Actor
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Letif Safarov was born on 30 September 1920 in Shusha, Azerbaijan, USSR. He was an actor and director, known for Leyli va Macnun (1961), In the Heat of the Sun (1957) and Bäxtiyar (1955). He died on 12 December 1963 in Baku, Azerbaijan, USSR.- Writer
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Ernesto Grassi was born on 24 November 1900 in Naples, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Madunnella (1948), Passione fatale (1950) and Cortocircuito (1943). He died on 12 December 1963 in Naples, Italy.- Wynne Weston Davies was born in 1892 in Edmonton, Middlesex, England, UK. Wynne Weston was married to Jessie Wilson. Wynne Weston died on 12 December 1963 in Springwood, New South Wales, Australia.
- Myles Thomas was born on 22 October 1897 in State College, Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to Helen Belcher. He died on 12 December 1963 in Toledo, Ohio, USA.
- Theodor Heuss was born on 31 January 1884 in Brackenheim, Kingdom of Württemberg [now Baden-Württemberg], Germany. He was married to Elly Heuss-Knapp. He died on 12 December 1963 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Eugen Guenther was born in 1878 in Hohen-Asperg, Württemberg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Romanze (1936), Purpur und Waschblau (1931) and Die Strecke (1927). He died on 12 December 1963 in Vienna, Austria.