Tokyo story

Resource Information

The work Tokyo story represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Tokyo story

Statement of responsibility

Janus Films ; a Shochiku production ; screenplay by Kogo Noda and Yasujiro Ozu ; executive producer, Takeshi Yamamoto ; directed by Yasujiro Ozu

Title variation

Tōkyō monogatari

Contributor

• Kaurismäki, Aki, 1957-
• Kwan, Stanley, 1957-
• Miyake, Kuniko
• Atsuta, Yūharu, 1905-1992
• Nagaoka, Teruko, 1908-2010
• Anderson, Lindsay, 1923-1994
• Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha
• Nakamura, Nobuo, 1908-1991
• Noda, Kōgo, 1893-1968
• Okada, Mariko, 1933-
• Janus Films
• Ozu, Yasujirō, 1903-1963
• Richie, Donald, 1924-2013
• Ryū, Chishū, 1904-1993
• Saitō, Takanobu, 1924-2004
• Satō, Tadao, 1930-2022
• Schrader, Paul, 1946-
• Sugimura, Haruko, 1909-1997
• Criterion Collection (Firm)
• Toake, Hisao, 1908-1985
• Tōno, Eijirō, 1907-1994
• Wenders, Wim
• Yamamoto, Takeshi, 1908-1972
• Hamada, Tatsuo
• Ōsaka, Shirō
• Yamamura, Sō, 1910-2000
• Hamamura, Yoshiyasu
• Hara, Setsuko, 1920-2015
• Desser, David
• Denis, Claire, 1948-
• Higashiyama, Chieko, 1890-1980
• Hou, Xiaoxian, 1947-
• Imamura, Shōhei, 1926-2006
• Kagawa, Kyōko
• Bordwell, David

Actor

• Ryū, Chishū, 1904-1993
• Hara, Setsuko, 1920-2015
• Higashiyama, Chieko, 1890-1980
• Kagawa, Kyōko
• Sugimura, Haruko, 1909-1997
• Nakamura, Nobuo, 1908-1991
• Miyake, Kuniko
• Nagaoka, Teruko, 1908-2010
• Ōsaka, Shirō
• Yamamura, Sō, 1910-2000
• Tōno, Eijirō, 1907-1994
• Toake, Hisao, 1908-1985

Art director

• Hamada, Tatsuo

Commentator

• Desser, David

Director of photography

• Atsuta, Yūharu, 1905-1992

Film director

• Ozu, Yasujirō, 1903-1963

Film distributor

• Criterion Collection (Firm)
• Janus Films

Film editor

• Hamamura, Yoshiyasu

Film producer

• Yamamoto, Takeshi, 1908-1972

Production company

• Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha

Screenwriter

• Ozu, Yasujirō, 1903-1963
• Noda, Kōgo, 1893-1968

Writer of supplementary textual content

• Bordwell, David

Subject

• Feature films
• Melodramas (Motion pictures)
• Parent and adult child -- Japan -- Drama
• Aging parents -- Japan | Onomichi-shi -- Drama
• Conflict of generations -- Japan -- Drama
• Fiction films

Genre

• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Melodramas (Motion pictures)
• Drama

Language

• jpn
• eng
• jpn
• jpn

Summary

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

Related

• Ikite wa mita keredo

Member of

• Criterion collection, 217
• Tōkyō monogatari (Motion picture)

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

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Credits note

Cinematography by Yūharu Atsuta ; art direction by Tatsuo Hamada ; music by Takanobu Saitō ; edited by Yoshiyasu Hamamura

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

Rating: Not rated

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Language note

Japanese dialogue; with optional English subtitles

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.T65 2013

PerformerNote

Setsuko Hara, Chishū Ryū, Chieko Higashiyama, Kyōko Kagawa, Haruko Sugimura, Sō Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake, Eijiro Tono, Nobuo Nakamura, Shiro Osaka, Hisao Toake, Teruko Nagaoka

Runtime

136

Series statement

The Criterion collection

Series volume

217

Technique

live action