TOKYO STORY Now on Criterion Dual Format Blu-ray/DVD

An elderly couple (Chieko Higashiyama, Chishu Ryu) travels to Tokyo to visit their adult children in Yasujiro Ozu`s classic, TOKYO STORY. Photo courtesy of The Criterion Collection. © 1953 Shochiku Co., Ltd.

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A profoundly stirring evocation of elemental humanity and universal heartbreak, TOKYO STORY (????, Tokyo Monogatari, 1953) is the crowning achievement of the unparalleled Yasujiro Ozu (LATE SPRING). The film, which follows an aging couple as they leave their rural village to visit their two married children in bustling postwar Tokyo, surveys the rich and complex world of family life with the director’s customary delicacy and incisive perspective on social mores. Featuring lovely performances from Ozu regulars Chishu Ryu (THERE WAS A FATHER) and Setsuko Hara (LATE AUTUMN), TOKYO STORY plumbs and deepens the director’s recurring themes of generational conflict, creating what is without question one of cinema’s mightiest masterpieces. DUAL FORMAT BLU-RAY/DVD Catalog #: CC2309BDDVD UPC: 0715515110211 SRP: $39.95 Release Date: November 19, 2013 SPINE #217 Production Year: 1953 Rating: Not Rated Run Time: 136 Minutes Color Format: Black & White Audio: PCM Mono Language: Japanese Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Number of Discs: 3 Closed Captions: No Subtitle: English Special Features: • One Blu-ray and two DVDs, with all content available in both formats • New digital restoration from a 4K film transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray • Audio commentary featuring Yasujiro Ozu scholar David Desser, editor of Ozu’s “Tokyo Story” • I Lived, But..., a 2-hour documentary from 1953 about Ozu`s life and career, featuring interviews with critics and former cast and crew members • Talking with Ozu, a forty-minute tribute to the director from 1993, featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay Anderson, Claire Denis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Aki Kaurismäki, Stanley Kwan, Paul Schrader, and Wim Wenders • Documentary from 1988 about actor Chishu Ryu’s career at Shochiku’s Ofuna studios, featuring a lengthy interview with Ryu • Trailer • New English subtitle translation • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic David Bordwell

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