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Overview

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8.0/10   6,785 votes
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Réalisateur:
Yasujiro Ozu
Writers:
Kôgo Noda (writer)
Yasujiro Ozu (writer)
Contact:
View company contact information for Tokyo Story on IMDbPro.
Release Date:
13 mars 1972 (USA) suite
Genre:
Drame suite
Plot:
An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city; but the children have little time for them. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
2 wins suite
Avis des utilisateurs:
The excuses we make to justify our neglect of others suite

Ensemble

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Chishu Ryu ... Shukishi Hirayama
Chieko Higashiyama ... Tomi Hirayama
Setsuko Hara ... Noriko Hirayama
Haruko Sugimura ... Shige Kaneko
Sô Yamamura ... Koichi Hirayama
Kuniko Miyake ... Fumiko Hirayama - his wife
Kyôko Kagawa ... Kyoko Hirayama
Eijirô Tôno ... Sanpei Numata
Nobuo Nakamura ... Kurazo Kaneko
Shirô Osaka ... Keiso Hirayama
Hisao Toake ... Osamu Hattori
Teruko Nagaoka ... Yone Hattori
Mutsuko Sakura ... Patron of the Oden Restaurant
Toyo Takahashi ... Shukichi Hirayama's Neighbor (as Toyoko Takahashi)
Toru Abe ... Train employee
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Additional Details

Autre(s) titre(s):
Tokyo Story (USA)
Conte de Tokyo (France) [fr]
Voyage à Tokyo (France) [fr]
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Durée:
136 min
Pays:
Japan
Langue:
Japonais
Couleur:
Noir et Blanc
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 suite
Son:
Mono
Emplacements De Pelliculage:
Atami, Shizuoka, Japan suite

Curiosités

Anecdotes:
Voted #7 in Total Film's 100 Greatest Movies Of All Time list (November 2005). suite
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: The "dead" mother is visibly breathing. suite
Guillemet:
Kyoko: Isn't life disappointing?
Noriko: [smiles] Yes, it is.
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Movie Connections:
References Stagecoach (1939) suite

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31 out of 38 people found the following comment useful:-
The excuses we make to justify our neglect of others, 14 May 2002
9/10
Author: KFL de Bloomington, IN

An appreciation of this movie may demand some understanding of Japanese culture. The Japanese are rather reserved, and were even more reserved back in the early 1950's, when this film is set. No embracing, even of parents, children, siblings; no dramatic histrionics; even a death scene in this movie is much quieter than a Westerner might expect.

Consequently I can't really blame several reviewers here for calling this movie boring and slow-paced. But it is not at all slow-paced from a different cultural perspective. It just depends on what you're used to.

If you do take the time to watch and try to understand it, you'll find an engrossing analysis of the dynamic of a middle-class family, the rift that grows up between generations, and of the many excuses we find ourselves making to justify our neglect for others, even those dearest to us. These themes are universal, but are couched in a postwar Japanese idiom, and so probably less accessible to the average Western viewer.

I have wondered awhile about a speech at the end by Noriko, the widowed daughter-in-law, in which she denies that she's such a good person (though her actions in the movie indicate otherwise). I'm still not sure I understand her motives in saying this. For the most part, however, this movie will not leave you puzzled, but it may leave you a bit wiser, and a bit more reluctant to make those excuses.

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