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Audio Format: DD 2.0
Video Format: Full Screen
Languages: Japanese
Subtitles: English, Chinese (T)
Region Code: ALL
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Release Date: 09/22/2009
Tokyo Story is widely regarded as being the crown jewel of Yasujiro Ozu’s career, as its consistent placing on all-time top ten film lists around the world along with Citizen Kane, Rules Of the Game and Vertigo will attest. An elderly couple visits their busy, self-absorbed offspring in Tokyo and are met with an indifference that only serves to reveal permanent emotional differences–which the parents gracefully meet with quiet resignation and then return home.
An aging couple, Tomi and Sukichi, travels 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. Without much moral judgement, Ozu depicts the widening gap between generations and the strain of modernisation on personal relations with great sensitivity and sympathy. An elegy on the disintegration of the traditional Japanese family.
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