Japan’s Golden Age of Cinema

Tokyo Story

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Credits

Original title :
Tokyo monogatari 
Country :
Japon
Year :
1953
Director :
Yasujiro Ozu
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
136 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimara
Awards :
#4 in the Sight and Sound poll of The Greatest Films of All Time, 2022
In collaboration with the Japan Foundation and the Japanese Embassy in Luxembourg

synopsis

An elderly take couple from a small village go to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their son, a doctor, and their daughter, a hairdresser, don’t have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to the widow of their younger son, who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

 

 

 

In this exquisite merging of specific and universal, infinite and infinitesimal, Tokyo Story perhaps most clearly illuminates that Ozu is not the most Japanese of filmmakers, but the most human.

Slant Magazine

The already towering reputation of this film and its director continues only to grow.

The Guardian

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