TOKYO STORY
Special Features: 70th Anniversary. #4 in Sight and Sound's list of the greatest films of all time
[TŌKYŌ MONOGATARI]
Filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu’s own favorite, but atypical in the austerity of its mood, TOKYO STORY tells the simple, wistful story of the generation gap (and a climactic death) in an everyday family. Aging parents Shukichi and Tomi Hirayama (Chishū Ryū and Chieko Higashiyama) visit Tokyo to see their children — busy doctor Koishi (Sō Yamamura, TORA! TORA! TORA!) and hard-boiled hairdresser Shige (Haruko Sugimura) — only to be shunted aside on sightseeing trips and Shukichi’s bender with old pals. Only their widowed daughter-in-law Noriko (Setsuko Hara, LATE SPRING, TOKYO STORY) is sympathetic and attentive. Movingly, Noriko smiles continually throughout everything, but when she stops, the effect is shattering. “There is treasure for everyone in TOKYO STORY, and the shame that we all had to wait so long for it.”– Stanley Kauffman, The New Republic (on the 1953 film’s 1972 New York premiere). DIR/SCR Yasujiro Ozu; SCR Kōgo Noda; PROD Takeshi Yamamoto. Japan, 1953, b&w, 136 min. In Japanese with English subtitles. NOT RATED
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Run Time: 136 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, August 25, 2023
Genre: Drama
