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'Tokyo Story' is a depiction of life's disappointments and frustrations told through the eyes of an ageing couple who go to visit their grown-up son and daughter in Tokyo. Japanese dialogue with English subtitles. Read more

Starring	Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Chieko Higashiyama
Director	Yasujiro Ozu
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

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Ozu - Vol. 1

Starring	Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Chieko Higashiyama
Director	Yasujiro Ozu
Studio	TARTAN VIDEO
Run time	DVD: 6 hrs 10 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama, World Cinema
Language	DVD: English, Finnish, French, Italian
Subtitles	DVD: English
Released	To Rent: DVD: 06 Dec 2004

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An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude and...
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A daughter and her father feel the social pressures around them when the daughter prefers to live with her fat...
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In postwar Tokyo, this household is loving and serene: older parents, their 28-year-old daughter Noriko, their...

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- Ozu's best known (because most widely distributed) movie is a very characteristic study of the emotional strains... read more on Time Out
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  Poignant story of a father and daughter.
  
  Yasujiro Ozu was fascinated by the effect of change in the lives of ordinary people. The Noriko trilogy is films devoted to this subject, comprising Late Spring... read more »
  
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  Superb, poignant film. Highly recommend.
  
  This is a humane, poignant and beautiful film.
  
  An elderly couple travel a long way from their village to visit their grown-up children in Tokyo.read more »
  
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  - Bideford
  - 15 Mar 2011 at 17:13
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  Enjoyable period film
  
  Not action packed but a very interesting period film which despite being low key is very enjoyable and also interesting to see life in post war japan
  
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  - london
  - 11 Feb 2011 at 08:08
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  Slow but True
  
  At one level very little happens. At another this is marking a huge sea change that occurred in many lives as the generations and the relationships between them... read more »
  
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