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A self-centered couple is inconvenienced by a parental visit. When the mother falls ill, her children hasten to be with her.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Tōkyō monogatari (Motion picture)
Other Authors: Noda, Kōgo, 1893-1968 (Screenwriter), Ozu, Yasujirō, 1903-1963 (Screenwriter), Hara, Setsuko, 1920-2015 (Actor), Ryū, Chishū, 1904-1993 (Actor, interviewee (expression)), Higashiyama, Chieko, 1890-1980 (Actor), Sugimura, Haruko, 1909-1997 (Actor, interviewee (expression)), Yamamura, Sō, 1910-2000 (Actor), Miyake, Kuniko (Actor), Kagawa, Kyōko (Actor), Tōno, Eijirō, 1907-1994 (Actor), Nakamura, Nobuo, 1908-1991 (Actor), Ōsaka, Shirō (Actor), Toake, Hisao, 1908-1985 (Actor), Nagaoka, Teruko, 1908-2010 (Actor), Atsuta, Yūharu, 1905- (director of photography.), Saitō, Takanobu, 1924-2004 (composer (expression)), Hamamura, Yoshiyasu (Film editor), Desser, David (Commentator), Kwan, Stanley, 1957- (interviewee (expression)), Kaurismäki, Aki, 1957- (interviewee (expression)), Denis, Claire, 1948- (interviewee (expression)), Anderson, Lindsay, 1923-1994 (interviewee (expression)), Schrader, Paul, 1946- (interviewee (expression)), Wenders, Wim (interviewee (expression)), Hou, Xiaoxian, 1947- (interviewee (expression)), Okada, Mariko, 1933- (interviewee (expression)), Imamura, Shōhei, 1926-2006 (interviewee (expression)), Richie, Donald, 1924-2013 (interviewee (expression)), Satō, Tadao, 1930- (interviewee (expression))
Format: Video Blu-ray Disc
Language:Japanese
Language Notes:Japanese dialogue; with English subtitles.
Published: [Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2013]
Edition:Blu-ray special edition.
Series:Criterion collection (Blu-ray discs) ; 217.
Subjects:
Aging parents > Japan > Onomichi-shi > Drama.
Parent and child > Japan > Drama.
Conflict of generations > Japan > Drama.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, Japanese.
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Description
Summary:A self-centered couple is inconvenienced by a parental visit. When the mother falls ill, her children hasten to be with her.
Item Description:Originally released as a motion picture in 1953.
Special features: Commentary (featuring Yasujiro Ozu scholar David Desser); Talking with Ozu (a forty-minute tribute to the director from 1993, featuring filmmakers Stanley Kwan, Aki Kaurismäki, Claire Denis, Lindsay Anderson, Paul Schrader, Wim Wenders, and Hou Hsiao-hsien); Trailer; I lived but ... (a two-hour documentary from 1983 about Ozu's live and career, featuring interviews with actors Chishu Ryu, Mariko Okada, and Haruko Sugimura, filmmaker Shohei Imamura, critics Donald Richie and Tadao Sato); Chishu Ryu and Shochiku's Ofuna Studio (a forty-five-minute documentary from 1988 about actor Chishu Ryu's sixty-year career with Shochiku and the work he did at its Ofuna Studio); new digital restoration from a 4k film transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; new English subtitle translation.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (136 min.) : Blu-ray, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:Blu-ray; NTSC; region A; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; monaural; Dolby Digital; requires Blu-ray player.
Audience:Rating: Not rated.
Production Credits:Cinematography by Yuharu Atsuta ; art direction by Tatsuo Hamada ; music by Takanobu Saitō ; edited by Yoshiyasu Hamamura.