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Tokyo Story (1953)
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Yasujiro Ozu was a master film-maker who specialised in middle-class family melodramas known in Japanese as shomin-geki, and this moving story is one of his finest achievements. Chishu Ryu and Chieko Higashiyama give performances of great dignity as the disappointed parents who are rejected by each of their thankless children in turn. Setsuko Hara, playing the widow of their favourite son, is the epitome of gentleness as the only relative to show them any kindness. Ryu and Hara were regular members of Ozu's acting troupe, and Hara retired from films when the director died in 1963. DP
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Running time
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129min
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Country of origin
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Jpn
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Genre
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Drama
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Alternate title
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Tokyo Monogatari
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Original language
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Japanese
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Screenplay
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Kogo Noda, Yasujiro Ozu
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Theatrical distributor
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BFI Films
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UK cinema certificate
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U
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UK cinema release date
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January 2010
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Subtitling information
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In Japanese with subtitles
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