ozu's younger contemporary, akira kurosawa, in 1999 published a conversation with his daughter kazuko in which he provided his unranked personal listing, in chronological order, of the top 100 films, both japanese and non-japanese, of all time. one of the works he selected was "late spring", with the following comment: "[ozu's] characteristic camera work was imitated by many directors abroads [sic] as well, i.e., many people saw and see mr. ozu’s movies, right? that’s good. indeed, one can learn pretty much from his movies. young prospective movie makers in japan should, i hope, see more of ozu’s work. ah, it was really good times when mr. ozu, mr. naruse and/or mr. mizoguchi were all making movies!"