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Tokyo Story
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Cast
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Chieko Higashiyama | ... |
Tomi Hirayama
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| Setsuko Hara | ... |
Noriko Hirayama
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Haruko Sugimura | ... |
Shige Kaneko
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| Sô Yamamura | ... |
Koichi Hirayama
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Kuniko Miyake | ... |
Fumiko Hirayama - his wife
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Kyôko Kagawa | ... |
Kyôko Hirayama
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Eijirô Tôno | ... |
Sanpei Numata
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Nobuo Nakamura | ... |
Kurazo Kaneko
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Shirô Osaka | ... |
Keizo Hirayama
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Hisao Toake | ... |
Osamu Hattori
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Teruko Nagaoka | ... |
Yone Hattori
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Mutsuko Sakura | ... |
Oden-ya no onna
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Toyo Takahashi | ... |
Rinka no saikun
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Tôru Abe | ... |
Tetsudou-shokuin
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An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude and selfishness. When the parents are packed off to a resort by their impatient children, the film deepens into an unbearably moving meditation on mortality Written by Paul Watabe
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13 March 1972 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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It was only last week that i saw this film for the first time, and i instantly loved it. It perfectly sums up the feelings from post war Japan, and the loss of values the community had to deal with. Our sympathies are instantly placed with the older generation, who are symbolic of the traditional values, while we see the younger generation as selfish, and too busy to spend time with their parents. We have a backward view of change and progress not necessarilly being so
Ozu shot the film from a waist height viewpoint, which to the traditional Japanese viewer respresents the view of someone below eye level sitting on a mat. This was the pose of the onlooker, and this constantly reminds us that the film is under the gaze, and we should take note. Like traditional Japanese cinema the camera does not move. Panning is replaced by clever cutting, and the mis-en-scene is very artistic. Using the foreground and background very cleverly to show film as an art in its purest form.