Tokyo Story
a.k.a. Tokyo Monogatari
Director:
Yasujiro Ozu
Cast:
Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, So Yamamura, Setsuko Hara
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- DVD Release Date: 10/28/2003
- Original Release: 1953
- Rating:
- Sales Rank: 6,214
Features
Newly restored high definition digital transfer; Audio commentary by Ozu-film scholar David Desser, editor of Ozu's Tokyo Story, a compilation of writings and reviews about the film; Original theatrical trailer; New and improved English subtitle translation; Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition; I Lived But... documentary; Talking With Ozu; New essay by David Bordwell, author of Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema
Full Product DetailsScene Index
Side #1 -- Tokyo Sotry
1. Opening Credits [2:33]
2. Preparations [3:46]
3. Arrival in Tokyo [7:10]
4. Noriko [4:12]
5. Catching Up [5:52]
6. A Change in Schedule [7:41]
7. Shige Enlists Noriko's Help [6:09]
8. Sightseeing in Tokyo [8:02]
9. The Children Make Plans [2:35]
10. Atami Hot Springs [8:04]
11. An Early Return [4:24]
12. Shukichi & Tomi Part [2:30]
13. Shukichi's Night Out [10:10]
14. Tomi Stays With Noriko [4:34]
15. Shukichi Returns to Shige's House [4:00]
16. Noriko Says Goodbye [3:58]
17. The Children See Their Parents Off [2:34]
18. A Temporary Stay in Osaka [3:42]
19. The Children Prepare to Visit [7:58]
20. Tomi's Condition Worsens [2:43]
21. The Family Gathers in Onomichi [4:55]
22. Keizo Arrives Late [6:03]
23. Funeral [2:53]
24. A Final Dinner Together [5:44]
25. Farewells [9:33]
26. "I'd Have Been Kinder to Her" [4:03]
27. Color Bars
Side #2 -- Extras
1. What Does This Nothingness Mean? [3:08]
2. Chishu Ryu [2:35]
3. A Brief History [7:09]
4. First Job [3:20]
5. Ozu's Film Career Begins [4:09]
6. The Student Series [2:33]
7. The Kihachi Series [6:28]
8. Fastidiousness [5:19]
9. The Circle of Life [6:30]
10. "I Can Wait" [7:37]
11. A Hen in the Wind [3:50]
12. Late Spring [7:36]
13. Early Summer [6:38]
14. Ozu's Mentors [2:23]
15. Worldwide Acclaim [4:48]
16. Writing With Kogo Noda [5:36]
17. Actor's Reflections [1:39]
18. Ozu and the Edo Tradition [2:59]
19. Authenticity [3:30]
20. A Director and Mentor [3:41]
21. The Shadow of Death [4:35]
22. A Rigid Framework [4:19]
23. Alone [7:43]
24. The Gardener [5:17]
25. Cancer [1:51]
26. A Full Circle [3:05]
1. Stanley Kwan [7:27]
2. Aki Kaurismaki [3:41]
3. Claire Denis [6:27]
4. Lindsay Anderson [4:22]
5. Paul Schrader [4:52]
6. Wim Wenders [7:07]
7. Hou Hsiao-Hsien [5:31]
Editorial Reviews
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 (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 complains about their vague sense of disappointment toward their children. Later, he stumbles into his daughter Shige's (Haruko Sugimura ) 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 (Kyoko Kagawa) remain. Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
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