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Bookmark this pageTokyo Story (1953)
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Ozu's best known (because most widely distributed) movie is a very characteristic study of the emotional strains within a middle class Japanese family that has come to Tokyo from the country and dispersed itself. All that happens in dramatic terms is that the family grandparents arrive in Tokyo to visit their various offspring, and grow painfully aware of the chasms that exist between them and their children; only their daughter-in-law, widowed in the war, is pleased to see them. Ozu's vision, almost entirely un-inflected by tics and tropes of 'style' by this stage in his career, is emotionally overwhelming, and arguably profound for any engaged viewer; it is also formally unmatched in Western popular cinema.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Producer: Takeshi Yamamoto
Cast: Chishu Ryu, Chiyeko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, So Yamamura, Kyoko Kagawa full cast
Rated: U
Duration: 135 mins
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