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Tokyo Story

Tokyo Story

Tokyo monogatari

Yasujiro Ozu


  • Country: Japan
  • Year: 1953
  • Language: Japanese
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  • Runtime: 136 min.

The undisputed master of domestic drama, Yasujiro Ozu created his supreme achievement with this moving meditation on aging, mortality, and the gulf between the generations.

Cinematheque

screening times

    • Friday October 8
    • 7:00:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3

Note: indicates Premium Screening.

official description

The undisputed master of domestic drama, Yasujiro Ozu created his supreme achievement with this moving meditation on aging, mortality, and the gulf between the generations. An elderly couple (Chishu Ryu and Chieko Higashiyama) journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude, and selfishness, finding solace only with the kind widow (the radiant Setsuko Hara) of their youngest son. Forgoing such basic cinematic devices as fades, wipes or dissolves, Ozu created his own quietly revolutionary film language, using beautifully poised, painterly stillness as an index of the deeply resonant emotion beneath these seemingly placid surfaces. "One of the greatest of all Japanese motion pictures. Ozu's style, now completely refined, utterly economical, creates a film which is unforgettable because it is so right, so true, and because it demands so much from an audience" (Donald Richie).

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