Tokyo story = Tōkyō monogatari / Alastair Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Alastair, 1963- author.

Series:

BFI film classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ozu, Yasujirō, 1903-1963--Criticism and interpretation.

Ozu, Yasujirō.

Tōkyō monogatari (Motion picture).

Physical Description:

112 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : British Film Institute, 2022.

Summary:

"Ozu Yasujiro's moving family drama, Tokyo 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."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 110-112).

Other Format:

Online version: Phillips, Alastair, 1963- Tokyo story.

ISBN:

1911239236

9781911239239

OCLC:

1286313815