BackTokyo Story
(Tokyo Monogatari) (book in English)
- Type
- Studies
- Subject
- One Film > Tokyo Story
- Yasujirô Ozu
- Publishing Date
- 2022
- Publisher
- BFI Publishing
- Collection
- BFI Film Classics
- Language
- English
Dimensions
- Physical desc.
- Paperback • 112 pages • 16 €
5.25 x 7.5 inches (13.5 x 19 cm)
Also available as an eBook. - ISBN
- 978-1-911239-23-9
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Ozu Yasujiro's moving family drama, Tōkyō monogatari/Tokyo Story (1953), is universally acknowledged as one of the most significant Japanese films ever made, and regularly cited as one of the greatest films of all time in polls of leading critics and filmmakers around the world.
Telling the story of an elderly couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their grown-up children, the film contrasts the behaviour of their children, who are too busy to pay their parents much attention, and their widowed daughter-in-law who treats them with hospitable kindness. In its complex portrait of human motivation and lively sense of social space, it offers a profound and poignant insight into the generational shifts of postwar Japan.
Alastair Phillips combines a close analysis of the film and its key locations - the city of Tokyo, the town of Onomichi and the coastal resort of Atami - with a discussion of its representation of Japanese society at a time of great cultural change. Drawing upon Japanese and English language sources, he situates the film within various contemporary critical and industrial contexts and examines the multiple international dimensions of Tokyo Story's long after-life to understand its enormous contribution to global film culture.
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