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The video is shooting for commemorate the 100th anniversary of Yasujiro Ozu. Shochiku Film Company came to the director Hsiao-hsien Hou, as we all know; it is because the style of Hou's film is considered the closest to the Yasujiro Ozu: fixed long shot, from the static camera to capture the life of dynamic. However, in my view, there are two distinct differences, Yasujiro Ozu’s film is described falling to pieces of Japan's family in the context of social changes, and Hsiao-hsien Hou is directly to make people in the environment of large turbulent, to performance of their uncertainty, confusion and restlessness of social transition. Yasujiro Ozu’s films are attend to the middle class in Japan, which appears to gentle and calm, there is a tolerance of strolling; and Hsiao-hsien Hou 's films are more performance the grass-roots people in Taiwan, seemingly the below surface of calm and collected, there is a undercurrent of stirring in the surge.