Tokyo Story
Yasujiro Ozu / JP, 1953 / 136 min.
A deeply moving analysis of the alienation between grandparents living in the countryside and their urbanite children and grandchildren in Tokyo. When the aged couple decides to visit, their children are too self-occupied to have time to spare for their parents. One of Ozu’s most dramatic films is high on the lists of all-time classics.
Tokyo Story is an incisive look at social mores in post-war Tokyo, and is without doubt one of the greatest masterpieces in the history of cinema. An elderly married couple visit their grown-up children in bustling Tokyo; but to their great unexpressed sorrow, find themselves confronted by a generational conflict.
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Director
Yasujiro Ozu
Production year
1953
Country
JP
Original title
Tokyo monogatari
Length
136 min.
Language
Japanese
Subtitles
NLD or ENG
Format
DCP
Part of
Eye Classics
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