1) Frontal Shots
In contrast to Classic Hollywood style's shot/reverse-shot, Ozu staged the actors in an angular, or sometimes, a straight on relation to one another. This creates mismatched eyelines, which is one of his distinctive stylistic techniques. Here we find an almost exact straight-on camera angle, eyeline falling slightly to the left of the lens axis.
2) Torqued Bodies
Ozu loved to force his actors' bodies into this odd position: the body faces away from the camera at a 90 degree angle, facing the camera with eyeline shooting across the other side of the lens axis. David Bordwell has called this a "torquing" of actors' bodies.