Tokyo Story ( Tôkyô monogatari )

Tokyo Story (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Tôkyô monogatari
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
136 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Production Notes
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1953 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Yasujiro Ozu

Written By:
Kôgo Noda
Yasujiro Ozu

Actors:
Chishu Ryu ..... Shukishi Hirayama
Chieko Higashiyama ..... Tomi Hirayama
Setsuko Hara ..... Noriko
Haruko Sugimura ..... Shige Kaneko
Sô Yamamura ..... Same per
Kuniko Miyake ..... Fumiko
Kyôko Kagawa ..... Kyoko
Eijirô Tono ..... Sanpei Numata
Nobuo Nakamura ..... Kurazo Kaneko
Shirô Osaka ..... Osako, Shiro
Hisao Toake ..... Osamu Hattori
Teruko Nagaoka ..... Yone
Mutsuko Sakura ..... Patron of the Oden Restaurant
Toyoko Takahashi ..... Shukichi Hirayama's Neighbor

Synopsis:

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 Hirayama (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 complain about their vague sense of disappointment towards their children. Later, he stumbles into his daughter Shige's 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 remain.

Story of an old couple who go from their province to Tokyo to visit their children and find them too pre-occupied to pay much attention to them.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 20 April, 2007.

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