TOKYO STORY (THE CRITERION COLLECTION)

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• Release Year: 1953
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story (Tokyo Monogatari) 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, however, 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. From a simple tale unfolds one of the greatest of all Japanese films. Starring Ozu regulars Chishu Ryu and Setsuko Hara, the film reprises one of the director's favorite themesthat of generational conflictin a way that is quintessentially Japanese and yet so universal in its appeal that it continues to resonate as one of cinema's greatest masterpieces.
• Cast: Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, Sô Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake, Kyôko Kagawa, Eijirô Tôno, Nobuo Nakamura, Shirô Ôsaka, Hisao Toake, Teruko Nagaoka, Mutsuko Sakura, Toyo Takahashi, Tôru Abe, Sachiko Mitani, Zen Murase, Mitsuhiro Môri, Junko Anan, Ryôko Mizuki, Yoshiko Togawa, Kazuhiro Itokawa, Fumio Tooyama, Keijirô Morozumi, Tsutomu Nijima, Shôzô Suzuki, Yoshiko Tashiro, Haruko Chichibu, Takashi Miki, Binnosuke Nagao, Yasujirô Ozu, Kôgo Noda
• Director: Yasujirô Ozu
• Runtime: 2:16
• Company: Shochiku
• Media Format: Movie