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Tokyo Story U rating

A constant fixture in critics' polls, Yasujiro Ozu's most enduring masterpiece is a beautifully nuanced exploration of filial duty, expectation and regret.

Drama 1953 136 mins

Director: Yasujiro Ozu

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Overview

A constant fixture in critics' polls, Yasujiro Ozu's most enduring masterpiece, Tokyo Story, is a beautifully nuanced exploration of filial duty, expectation and regret. From the simple tale of an elderly husband and wife's visit to Tokyo to see their grown-up children, Ozu draws a compelling contrast between the measured dignity of age and the hurried insensitivity of a younger generation.

The later films of Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu are marked by a striking uniformity of theme and form. These are stories of family life involving inevitable rupture, as things change, daughters marry, widowers grow old. Ozu films this bittersweet natural progression in his unmistakably controlled, minimal style, typified by head-on shots with the camera at the height of a seated observer.

Director
Yasujiro Ozu
Featuring
Chishu RyuChieko HigashiyamaSetsuko Hara
Genres
Drama
Certificate
UContains no material likely to offend or harm
Released
1953
Country
Japan
Language
Japanese with English subtitles