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Tokyo Story DVD

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  • Additional Details
  • Format: DVD
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Run Time: 135 Minutes
  • Region: 1 Region?
  • Aspect Ratio: Fullscreen
  • Language: Japanese
  • Studio: Criterion Collection
  • DVD Release Date: October 28, 2003
  • Closed Captioning: No
  • Audio: ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono
  • Genre: Foreign
  • Color: Color
  • Includes:
    Disc One
    Audio Commentary by Ozu-Film Scholar David Desser, Editor of Ozu's Tokyo Story, a Compilation of Writings and Reviews About the Film
    Original Theatrical Trailer

    Disc Two
    I Lived But... (1983), a Two-Hour Documentary About the Life and Career of Ozu, Featuring Former Assistant Shohei Imamura, Critics Donald Richie and Tadao Sato, Actors Chishu Ryu, Mariko Okada, Haruko Sugimora, and Many Others.
    Talking With Ozu (1993), a 40-minute Tribute to Ozu Featuring Reflections from Directors Stanley Kwan, Aki Kaurismaki, Claire Denis, Lindsay Anderson, Paul Schrader, Wim Wenders, and Hou Hsiao-hsien
    New Essay by David Bordwell, Author of Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema
  • Release Date: 1953
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 themes—that of generational conflict—in 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.

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