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Tokyo Story (1953)

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Reviews Counted: 21 Fresh: 21  Rotten:0 Average Rating: 9.7/10

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Runtime: 2 hrs 19 mins

Synopsis: The Japanese family's transformation by modern, Western culture formed the core theme of director Ozu's work, and this motif is crystallized in an exquisite, intimate story of alienation and reconciliation in TOKYO STORY. An aging couple, living in retirement in rural Japan, decide to... The Japanese family's transformation by modern, Western culture formed the core theme of director Ozu's work, and this motif is crystallized in an exquisite, intimate story of alienation and reconciliation in TOKYO STORY. An aging couple, living in retirement in rural Japan, decide to visit their married children in the bustling metropolis of post-war Tokyo. But once they arrive, they find that the children no longer have room for them in their busy lives. Shuffling their parents back and forth between each of their houses the couple is eventually shipped off to a health spa. Only the couple's daughter-in-law, widow of their son who died in the war, shows them any kindness. The parents return home lonely and disillusioned, and the mother soon falls sick. The children arrive too late, and have lost their chance to make any reconciliation. The patterns of movement, dialogue and nature combine with a scrupulous attention to character under Ozu's masterful eye and create a subtle yet overwhelmingly emotional drama. [More]

Genre: Foreign Films

Starring: Chishu Ryu, Chiyeko Higashiyama, Sô Yamamura, Haruko Sugimura, Setsuko Hara

Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Screenwriter: Yasujiro Ozu, Kogo Noda
Composer: Takanori Saito

DVD Info

Release:

Oct 14, 2003

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • 2-Disc Set
  • Keep Case
  • Single Side - Dual Layer

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary - 1. David Desser - Ozu Scholar
  • Featurette - 1. "Talking With Ozu" (30 Minutes)
  • Documentary - 1. "I Lived, But..." (120 Minutes)
  • Interview With Cinematographer Yuharu Atsuta
  • Original Theatrical Trailer

Text/Image Galleries:

  • Essay by Author David Bordwell

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Geoff Andrew
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08/12/05
Emanuel Levy
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Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story might be his masterpiece.

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01/31/05
Dan Callahan
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Ozu doesn't sentimentalize or condemn; he merely observes human nature with calm and clarity.

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12/30/04
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Ozu's style is one based on restriction, rigor, and repetition, which paradoxically expands his emotional meanings.

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12/01/04
Doug Cummings
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One of the most quietly powerful studies of the gradual and inevitable erosion of the family in a rapidly changing world.

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08/25/04
Dan Jardine
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04/09/04
Guardian [UK]
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Anyone can relate to those moments when the calm is broken by the undercurrents of anguish, disappointment and resentment that run through every family.

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04/09/04
Jason Anderson
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Rife with a pervasive sense of loss, Tokyo story offers little comfort and promises great sorrow. This is a profoundly moving film.

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04/05/04
Dan Jardine
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01/24/04
Mark Freeman
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01/23/04
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal
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It ennobles the cinema. It says, yes, a movie can help us make small steps against our imperfections.

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01/15/04
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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One of the great classics of world cinema.

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01/13/04
Jamie Russell
BBC
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constantly bursts with life and meaning, despite the fact that very little happens in the conventional narrative sense

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12/14/03
James Kendrick
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Examines the same themes as films like Ordinary People and American Beauty, for example. And both of those look clumsy and derivative in comparison!

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12/12/03
Rich Cline
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This very well might be the best film ever made.

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12/08/03
Dennis Schwartz
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Could easily change your life.

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11/17/03
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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like people-watching from the point of view of a god

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10/27/03
Jake Euker
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