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Their other three surviving adult children, who they have not seen in quite some time, live either in Tokyo or Osaka. As such, Shukishi and Tomi make the unilateral decision to have an extended visit in Tokyo with their children, pediatrician Koichi Hirayama and beautician Shige Kaneko, and their respective families (which includes two grandchildren).
Jul 14, 2016 · A Film by Yasujiro Ozu. The finest film ever made. Listed at #1 in Halliwell's Top 1000 countdown of the world's best cinema, and voted among the five best f...
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Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story follows an aging couple, Tomi and Sukichi, on their journey from their rural village to visit their two married children in bustling, postwar Tokyo. Their reception is disappointing: too busy to entertain them, their children send them off to a health spa. After Tomi falls ill she and Sukichi return home, while the children, grief-stricken, hasten to be with her ...
Criterion Collection Edition #217 A profoundly stirring evocation of elemental humanity and universal heartbreak, TOKYO STORY is the crowning achievement of the unparalleled Yasujiro Ozu. The film, which follows an aging couple’s journey to visit their grown children in bustling postwar Tokyo, s...
Jun 25, 2020 · The regular appearance of Tokyo Story in such lists is curious, given how resolutely lowkey it is in its story and its telling. The original international title was Their First Trip to Tokyo, although it never appears to have been released under it anywhere, and the film does indeed follow an aged couple, Shukichi and Tomi, on their first trip to Japan’s capital from their sleepy seaside ...
A masterpiece in radical subtlety, Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story is less concerned with plot than it is feeling. Crafted in his compassionate, contemplative style, this sensitive, quiet miracle of a film patiently reveals universal truths: about families, and moreover, the cycles and rhythms of time.
Aug 31, 2023 · Discover the timeless beauty and wisdom of Ozu's masterpiece, a poignant portrait of family life in postwar Japan, re-released for its 70th anniversary.
