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Tokyo Story [1953]
starring: Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Sô Yamamura, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura
directed by: Yasujiro Ozu

Used Price: £19.99

Audience Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5024165235362
Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, PAL
Label: Artificial Eye
Manufacturer: Artificial Eye
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Artificial Eye
Release Date: March 07, 1994
Running Time: 130 minutes
Studio: Artificial Eye
Theatrical Release Date: March 13, 1972
Sales Rank: 13146

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Ozu - The Noriko Trilogy (Late Spring)
This has a slow start and moves very slowly and gently through a gentle sweet story about the relationship of a japanese daughter and her father. Surprisingly modern in some aspects.

Rating:

- Truly brilliant filmmaking
What can I say? Tokyo Story really is one of the best films ever made, and the other two films included here are also pretty good. Just honest old-fashioned stories with real emotional depth, acted brilliantly.

Rating:

- Update
Further to my earlier comments I have been told by Tartan video that they were unable to obtain the commentaries they planned but were at that stage unable to change the information on the box. They say that it will be changed.

If you want full commentaries and a lot of extra material on Tokyo Story I would go for the US version (if you can play R1 DVDs)

Rating:

- Noriko Trilogy
Despite what the listing says this DVD contains three Ozu films the superb Tokyo Story together with the very good films Late Spring and Early Summer. The only disappointment with this DVD set is that advertised extras include "...selected scene commentaries from some of the UK's leading film critics." The only extras on the DVDs are trailers and photo galleries. There is a small, less than A5,booklet enclosed with six pages of text. Two pages are biographies. The rest are brief decriptions of the films with barely any scene description. written by Nick Wrigley.

Rating:

- Tokyo Story - true feelings in a hidden Japan
Tokyo Story was a film I didn't truly understand until I studied Japanese culture.

I feel that it can be best compared to the writing of the American author Henry James: very little seems to happen in terms of physical action but the true story is in what is said and left unsaid.

Tokyo Story is also a depiction of the struggle Japan and the Japanese people felt through the post war era. Still linked to the old but wishing to be part of the new. This is shown by the rural bound parents and their relationship with their Tokyo living son.

I can't wait for this to come out on DVD.

VHS : Tokyo Story [1953]