Tokyo Story [1953]

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)


Noriko Trilogy   January 29, 2005
Stuart A. Orr (Frankfurt)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful

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.


Tokyo Story - true feelings in a hidden Japan   September 22, 2004
V K Folkard (Devon United Kingdom)
17 out of 20 found this review helpful

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.