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Tokyo story [videorecording] = Tôkyô monogatari / the Criterion Collection ; Janus Films ; a Shochiku production ; directed by Yasujiro Ozu ; screenplay by Kogo Noda and Yasujiro Ozu.

Contributor(s): Publisher number: TOK070 | Criterion CollectionLanguage: Japanese Summary language: English Series: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 217. | Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)Publication details: [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, 2003.Description: 2 videodiscs (136 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 0780027655
Other title:
  • Tokyo story
  • Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo story
Uniform titles:
  • Tôkyô monogatari.
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .T6213 2003
Production credits:
  • Photography, Yuharu Atsuka ; art direction, Tatsuo Hamada.
Cast: Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Haruko Sugimura, So Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake, Kyoko Kagawa, Eijiro Tono, Nobuo Nakamura, Shiro Osaka, Hisao Toake, Teruko Nagaoka.Summary: Tokyo Story 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 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.
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DVDs DVDs American University in Dubai American University in Dubai AUDIO & DVD Collection DVD Tokyo (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Copy Type:33 - DVD Available 601390

Originally released as a motion picture in 1953.

Special features include: Audio commentary by David Desser ; original theatrical trailer ; Ikite wa mita keredo = I lived, but-- (1983 documentary about Ozu directed by Kazuo Inoue, 2 hrs.) ; Talking with Ozu (1993 tribute to the director, 40 min.) ; essay by David Bordwell.

Credits from English subtitles.

Photography, Yuharu Atsuka ; art direction, Tatsuo Hamada.

Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Haruko Sugimura, So Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake, Kyoko Kagawa, Eijiro Tono, Nobuo Nakamura, Shiro Osaka, Hisao Toake, Teruko Nagaoka.

Tokyo Story 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 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.

DVD.

In Japanese with optional English subtitles.

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