Tokyo story / Janus Films ; a Shochiku production ; screenplay by Kogo Noda and Yasujiro Ozu ; executive producer, Takeshi Yamamoto ; directed by Yasujiro Ozu.
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FilmPublisher number: CC2603BD | Criterion CollectionLanguage: Japanese Original language: Japanese Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 217.Publisher: [Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Edition: Blu-ray special editionDescription: 1 videodisc (136 min.) : Blu-ray, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 9781681431260
- 1681431262
- Tōkyō monogatari (Motion picture)
- Cinematography by Yuharu Atsuta ; art direction by Tatsuo Hamada ; music by Takanobu Saitō ; edited by Yoshiyasu Hamamura.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
As with much of director Yasujiro Ozu's work, a plot summary of this film does not do justice to the emotional power that Ozu lends to this sad, understated tale. An elderly couple, Shukichi (Chishu Ryu) and Tomi Hirayama (Chieko Higashiyama), leaves their small coastal village in southern Japan to visit their married children in Tokyo. Their eldest son, Koichi (So Yamamura), a doctor running a clinic in a working-class part of town, is too busy to show them around town, and their eldest daughter is occupied with her beauty salon. Only their widowed daughter-in-law, Noriko, played memorably by Setsuko Hara, is willing to take time off work to show the couple the sights of Tokyo. The older children arrange for their parents to visit Atami Hot Springs, but the unimpressed couple soon returns to Tokyo. Tomi stays with her daughter-in-law while Shukichi goes out drinking with some of his buddies, and the bunch complains about their vague sense of disappointment toward their children. Later, he stumbles into his daughter Shige's (Haruko Sugimura ) house late at night. On the way back to their village, tragedy strikes. The callous inattention that son and daughter paid to their parents becomes unamendable. Shige and Koichi quickly return to their busy lives in Tokyo after the funeral, as Noriko and youngest daughter Kyoko (Kyoko Kagawa) remain. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
Blu-ray; NTSC; region A; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; monaural; Dolby Digital; requires Blu-ray player.
Japanese dialogue; with English subtitles.
Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Haruko Sugimura, So Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake, Kyoko Kagawa, Eijiro Tono, Nobuo Nakamura, Shiro Osaka, Hisao Toake, Teruko Nagaoka.
Cinematography by Yuharu Atsuta ; art direction by Tatsuo Hamada ; music by Takanobu Saitō ; edited by Yoshiyasu Hamamura.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1953.
Rating: Not rated.
A self-centered couple is inconvenienced by a parental visit. When the mother falls ill, her children hasten to be with her.
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.