This is the first and only time that I am aware of, where a director made a movie and later (25 years to be exact) remade the same movie.
Hitchcock made The Man Who Knew Too Much in 1934, and then again in 1955, with a different studio, bigger budget and James Stewart and Doris Day in the leads. Michael Haneke's currently remaking his own Funny Games (1997) with Naomi Watts, too.
I'm woefully unfamiliar with Ozu.
And Spielberg has had the urge to remake SUGARLAND EXPRESS.
