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Tokyo story [DVD] / Directed by Yasujiro Ozu.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmSeries: Publication details: [Australia] : Madman Entertainment, c2006.Description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (136 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 12 cmISBN:
  • 8809088526417
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • DVD 284
Contents:
Special features: Digitally restored and remastered film -- Stills gallery -- Original theatrical trailer -- 'Tokyo ga', Wim Wenders' rarely-seen documentary: In 1985, the German director, moved by the films of Yasujiro Ozu, travelled to Japan hoping to find the Tokyo of Ozu's films. 'Tokyo ga' is the result of that search -- Deleted scenes from 'Tokyo ga' -- Liner notes by Australian film scholar Fred Freiberg.
Production credits:
  • Directed by Yasujiro Ozu ; photographed by Yuharu Atsuta ; script by Yasujiro Ozu and Kogo Noda.
Cast: Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, So Yamamura, Haruko Sugimura, Setsuko Hara, Kyoko Kagawa, Shiro Osaka.Summary: "When an elderly couple travel to a rapidly-rebuilding Tokyo to visit their children, they are met with unexpected indifference, ingratitude and selfishness. As the vastly different priorities of pre- and post-war Japan collide, Yasujiro Ozu's materpiece [sic] deepens into a sublime meditation on family, ambition and morality"--container.
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Feature length: 136 min.

Special features: Digitally restored and remastered film -- Stills gallery -- Original theatrical trailer -- 'Tokyo ga', Wim Wenders' rarely-seen documentary: In 1985, the German director, moved by the films of Yasujiro Ozu, travelled to Japan hoping to find the Tokyo of Ozu's films. 'Tokyo ga' is the result of that search -- Deleted scenes from 'Tokyo ga' -- Liner notes by Australian film scholar Fred Freiberg.

Directed by Yasujiro Ozu ; photographed by Yuharu Atsuta ; script by Yasujiro Ozu and Kogo Noda.

Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, So Yamamura, Haruko Sugimura, Setsuko Hara, Kyoko Kagawa, Shiro Osaka.

"When an elderly couple travel to a rapidly-rebuilding Tokyo to visit their children, they are met with unexpected indifference, ingratitude and selfishness. As the vastly different priorities of pre- and post-war Japan collide, Yasujiro Ozu's materpiece [sic] deepens into a sublime meditation on family, ambition and morality"--container.

Rated PG.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1953.

Japanese dialogue with English subtitles.

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