Japan’s Golden Age of Cinema

Tokyo Story

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.

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