Tokyo story [videorecording] / director, Yasujirô Ozu; producer, Takeshi Yamamoto; writer, Kogo Noda; writer, Yasujirô Ozu.
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FilmPublisher number: BFIB1056 | BFILanguage: Japanese Summary language: English Publication details: BFI, 2010Description: 2 Blu-Rays (130 min.) : b&wGenre/Form: Feature : ForeignDDC classification: 791.437 Cast: Cast: Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, So Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake, Kyoko Kagawa, Eijiro Tono, Nobuo Nakamura, Shirô Osaka, Hisao Toake, Teruko Nagaoka.Summary: Widely regarded as Yasujiro Ozu's masterpiece, this early 1950s Japanese drama is a tender meditation on ageing, mortality and inter-generational tensions. When an elderly couple, Tomi and Shukishi (Chieko Higashiyama and Chishu Ryu), travel from their rural village home to Tokyo to visit their married son and daughter, their reception is disappointing. Met with selfish indifference and impatience by their children and their grandchildren, they are soon packed off to a health spa - but when Tomi falls ill, her descendants are forced to re-evaluate their priorities.
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Paul Hamlyn Library | Paul Hamlyn Library | Floor 1 Mobile shelves | 791.4372 TOK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 06267734 |
Extras to be confirmed, Region B, 2 disc(s), Interactive menus, Languages (Japanese), Subtitles (English).
Made in 1953.
Credits: music, Kojun Saito.
BRDVD.
Cast: Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, So Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake, Kyoko Kagawa, Eijiro Tono, Nobuo Nakamura, Shirô Osaka, Hisao Toake, Teruko Nagaoka.
Widely regarded as Yasujiro Ozu's masterpiece, this early 1950s Japanese drama is a tender meditation on ageing, mortality and inter-generational tensions. When an elderly couple, Tomi and Shukishi (Chieko Higashiyama and Chishu Ryu), travel from their rural village home to Tokyo to visit their married son and daughter, their reception is disappointing. Met with selfish indifference and impatience by their children and their grandchildren, they are soon packed off to a health spa - but when Tomi falls ill, her descendants are forced to re-evaluate their priorities.
BBFC code: U.
Blu-Ray.
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