Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title: | Tokyo story Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo story
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Other title: | Ikite wa mita keredo. Talking with Ozu.
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Other authors / contributors: | Ozu, Yasujirō, 1903-1963.
Noda, Kōgo, 1893-1968.
Ryū, Chishū, 1904-1993
Higashiyama, Chiyeko.
Yamamura, Sō, 1910-2000.
Sugimura, Haruko, 1909-1997.
Hara, Setsuko, 1920-2015
Kagawa, Kyōko.
Ōsaka, Shirō.
Inoue, Kazuo, 1924-2011
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Janus Films.
Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha.
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ISBN: | 0780027655 9780780027657
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Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1953. Special features include: Audio commentary by David Desser ; original theatrical trailer ; Ikite wa mita keredo = I lived, but-- (1983 documentary about Ozu directed by Kazuo Inoue, 2 hrs.) ; Talking with Ozu (1993 tribute to the director, 40 min.) ; essay by David Bordwell. Credits from English subtitles. Photography, Yuharu Atsuka ; art direction, Tatsuo Hamada. Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Haruko Sugimura, So Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake, Kyoko Kagawa, Eijiro Tono, Nobuo Nakamura, Shiro Osaka, Hisao Toake, Teruko Nagaoka. DVD. In Japanese with optional English subtitles.
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Summary: | Tokyo Story follows an aging couple, Tomi and Sukichi, on their journey from their rural village to visit their two married children in bustling, post-war 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.
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Publisher's no.: | TOK070 Criterion Collection
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