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東京物語 = Tokyo story /

Tōkyō monogatari = Tokyo story /

松竹株式会社. 小津安二郎, 野田高梧, 原節子, Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: TOK070 | Criterion CollectionLanguage: Japanese Original language: Japanese Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 217. | Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)Publisher: [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2003]Description: 2 videodiscs (136 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide ([8] pages : illustrations)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 0780027655
  • 9780780027657
Other title:
  • Tokyo story
  • Title on container: Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo story
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.4372 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .T6213 2003
NLM classification:
  • FC GE 1953 T659
Online resources:
Contents:
Opening credits -- Preparations -- Arrival in Tokyo -- Noriko -- Catching up -- A change in schedule -- Shige enlists Noriko's help -- Sight seeing in Tokyo -- The children make plans -- Atami hot springs -- An early return -- Shukichi & Tomi part -- Shukichi's night out -- Tomi stays with Noriko -- Shukichi returns to Noriko's house -- Noriko says goodbye -- The children see their parents off -- A temporary stay in Osaka -- The children prepare to visit -- Tomi's condition worsens -- The family gathers in Onomichi -- Keizo arrives late -- Funeral -- A final dinner together -- Farewells -- "I'd have been kinder to her" -- Color bars.
Production credits:
  • Photography, Yuharu Atsuta ; art direction, Tatsuo Hamada.
Cast: Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Haruko Sugimura, So Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake, Kyoko Kagawa, Eijiro Tono, Nobuo Nakamura, Shiro Osaka, Hisao Toake, Teruko Nagaoka.Summary: Tokyo Story follows an aging couple, Tomi and Sukichi, on their journey from their rural village to visit their two married children in bustling, post-war Tokyo. Their reception is disappointing: too busy to entertain them, their children send them off to a health spa. After Tomi falls ill she and Sukichi return home, while the children, grief-stricken, hasten to be with her.
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Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-02473 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050191271

Originally released as a motion picture in 1953.

Credits from English subtitles.

Special features: Disc one: Audio commentary by David Desser -- original theatrical trailer ; Disc two: Ikite wa mita keredo [= I lived, but--] (1983 documentary about Ozu directed by Kazuo Inoue, 2 hrs.) -- Talking with Ozu (1993 tribute to the director, 40 min.) ; Insert features essay by David Bordwell.

Opening credits -- Preparations -- Arrival in Tokyo -- Noriko -- Catching up -- A change in schedule -- Shige enlists Noriko's help -- Sight seeing in Tokyo -- The children make plans -- Atami hot springs -- An early return -- Shukichi & Tomi part -- Shukichi's night out -- Tomi stays with Noriko -- Shukichi returns to Noriko's house -- Noriko says goodbye -- The children see their parents off -- A temporary stay in Osaka -- The children prepare to visit -- Tomi's condition worsens -- The family gathers in Onomichi -- Keizo arrives late -- Funeral -- A final dinner together -- Farewells -- "I'd have been kinder to her" -- Color bars.

DVD ; NTSC, Region 1 ; dual-layer disc ; Dolby Digital mono.

In Japanese with optional English subtitles.

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