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Tokyo Story - Yasujirō Ozu

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Directed by: 
Yasujirō Ozu
Screenplay by: 
Yasujirō Ozu
Kogo Noda
Produced by: 
Takeshi Yamamoto
Release year: 
1953
Country: 
Japan
Runtime: 
136min
Genre: 
Drama
Music by: 
Kojun Saito
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Plot: 
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
Cast: 
Chishu Ryu
as
Shukishi Hirayama
Chieko Higashiyama
as
Tomi Hirayama
Setsuko Hara
as
Noriko Hirayama
Eijirō Tōno
as
Sanpei Numata
Shiro Osaka
as
Keizo Hirayama
Nobuo Nakamura
as
Kurazo Kaneko
Kuniko Miyake
as
Fumiko Hirayama
Kyōko Kagawa
as
Kyôko Hirayama
Haruko Sugimura
as
Shige Kaneko
So Yamamura
as
Koichi Hirayama
Hisao Toake
as
Osamu Hattori
Teruko Nagaoka
as
Yone Hattori
Toyo Takahashi
as
Rinka no saikun
Tôru Abe
as
Tetsudou-shokuin
Mutsuko Sakura
as
Oden-ya no onna

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Review by Drugo

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The confrontation between two generations with different values but also a time of deep changes for the Japan, all masterfully described in this very touching film directed by Ozu. A genre very similar to neorealism, except for the high formality.

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