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Tokyo Story, 1953

Starring: Chishu Ryu, Chiyeko Higashiyama

Directed by: Yasujiro Ozu

Written by: Yasujiro Ozu

Language: Japanese

Country: Japan

Runtime: 136 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:8.3

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Tokyo Story can be described as contemplative, sentimental, and bittersweet. The plot revolves around aging, family life, and parents and children. The main genres are drama and foreign. In approach, Tokyo Story is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. It is located in Tokyo. Tokyo Story takes place in the 1950s. Visually, it is black and white. The movie has received attention for being a masterpiece, essential viewing, and an award winner.

Summary of Tokyo Story

Yasujiro Ozu's most widely distributed and best-known film presents the story of an elderly couple in post World War II Japan who come to Tokyo to visit their various children and realize that the family has essentially fallen apart. The couple is received coldly by their two modernized children and only their widowed daughter-in-law seems glad to see them. The children shuttle their aging parents off to a health spa in an attempt to get them out of the way. They learn later that the mother has fallen ill upon her return and arrive too late to say their good-byes.