Tokyo story /
Tokyo story /
Janus Films ; a Shochiku production ; screenplay by Kogo Noda and Yasujiro Ozu ; executive producer, Takeshi Yamamoto ; directed by Yasujiro Ozu.
- Blu-ray special edition.
, Japan.
- 1 videodisc (136 min.) : Blu-ray, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- The Criterion collection ; 217 .
- Criterion collection ; 217. .
Originally released as a motion picture in 1953. Special features: Commentary (featuring Yasujiro Ozu scholar David Desser); Talking with Ozu (a forty-minute tribute to the director from 1993, featuring filmmakers Stanley Kwan, Aki Kaurismäki, Claire Denis, Lindsay Anderson, Paul Schrader, Wim Wenders, and Hou Hsiao-hsien); Trailer; I lived but ... (a two-hour documentary from 1983 about Ozu's live and career, featuring interviews with actors Chishu Ryu, Mariko Okada, and Haruko Sugimura, filmmaker Shohei Imamura, critics Donald Richie and Tadao Sato); Chishu Ryu and Shochiku's Ofuna Studio (a forty-five-minute documentary from 1988 about actor Chishu Ryu's sixty-year career with Shochiku and the work he did at its Ofuna Studio); new digital restoration from a 4k film transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; new English subtitle translation; PLUS: an essay by critic David Bordwell.
Cinematography by Yuharu Atsuta ; art direction by Tatsuo Hamada ; music by Takanobu Saitō ; edited by Yoshiyasu Hamamura. Cinematography by Yuharu Atsuta ; art direction by Tatsuo Hamada ; music by Takanobu Saitō ; edited by Yoshiyasu Hamamura.
Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Haruko Sugimura, So Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake, Kyoko Kagawa, Eijiro Tono, Nobuo Nakamura, Shiro Osaka, Hisao Toake, Teruko Nagaoka.
A self-centered couple is inconvenienced by a parental visit. When the mother falls ill, her children hasten to be with her.
Rating: Not rated.
Blu-ray; NTSC; region A; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; monaural; Dolby Digital; requires Blu-ray player.
Japanese dialogue; with English subtitles.
9781681431260 1681431262
715515172318
CC2603BD Criterion Collection
Aging parents--Japan--Onomichi-shi--Drama.
Parent and child--Japan--Drama.
Conflict of generations--Japan--Drama.
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1953. Special features: Commentary (featuring Yasujiro Ozu scholar David Desser); Talking with Ozu (a forty-minute tribute to the director from 1993, featuring filmmakers Stanley Kwan, Aki Kaurismäki, Claire Denis, Lindsay Anderson, Paul Schrader, Wim Wenders, and Hou Hsiao-hsien); Trailer; I lived but ... (a two-hour documentary from 1983 about Ozu's live and career, featuring interviews with actors Chishu Ryu, Mariko Okada, and Haruko Sugimura, filmmaker Shohei Imamura, critics Donald Richie and Tadao Sato); Chishu Ryu and Shochiku's Ofuna Studio (a forty-five-minute documentary from 1988 about actor Chishu Ryu's sixty-year career with Shochiku and the work he did at its Ofuna Studio); new digital restoration from a 4k film transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; new English subtitle translation; PLUS: an essay by critic David Bordwell.
Cinematography by Yuharu Atsuta ; art direction by Tatsuo Hamada ; music by Takanobu Saitō ; edited by Yoshiyasu Hamamura. Cinematography by Yuharu Atsuta ; art direction by Tatsuo Hamada ; music by Takanobu Saitō ; edited by Yoshiyasu Hamamura.
Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Haruko Sugimura, So Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake, Kyoko Kagawa, Eijiro Tono, Nobuo Nakamura, Shiro Osaka, Hisao Toake, Teruko Nagaoka.
A self-centered couple is inconvenienced by a parental visit. When the mother falls ill, her children hasten to be with her.
Rating: Not rated.
Blu-ray; NTSC; region A; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; monaural; Dolby Digital; requires Blu-ray player.
Japanese dialogue; with English subtitles.
9781681431260 1681431262
715515172318
CC2603BD Criterion Collection
Aging parents--Japan--Onomichi-shi--Drama.
Parent and child--Japan--Drama.
Conflict of generations--Japan--Drama.
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
Feature films.
Fiction films.