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	DVD Verdict Review - Tokyo Story: Criterion Collection
		Tokyo Story's actors are Ozu regulars, familiar with his sensibilities and cognizant of the delicacy with which their performances need to be delivered.
		Though she lives in Tokyo and works for a tire manufacturer, Noriko takes a traditional stance with regard to her status as a widow: she is a member of her late husband's family, and she will not remarry despite her loneliness.
		With that in mind, Tokyo Story's image on DVD is a high-contrast fl-and-white with a narrow gray scale, noticeable grain, and many instances of emulsion damage in the form of nicks and pocks.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/tokyostory.php (1984 words)

	TOKYO STORY
		Tokyo Story really deals with three generations passing through life, but mostly with the generation that is passing out of it, and it understands that a calm reticence may be the true heroism of ordinary old age.
		But in context this scene, very near the end of Tokyo Story, essentially completes a view of normal life that is luminous in its freedom from the sentimentality or the satire that so often obscure an artist's vision of normal living.
		Those people, at least in Tokyo Story, are marvelous and they are played by actors so wholly of their parts that it is all but impossible to think of them in other roles in other movies—though they do in fact make up part of an Ozu stock company.
	home.att.net /~pingtze/Film/TokyoStory_NYT_review.htm (543 words)

	News & Opinion: They Call Her Tokyo Rose (NewCity . 01-20-98)
		But the real story of the woman who became known as Tokyo Rose is even more intriguing than the tale of some sexy, seductive woman calling men from their warships to watery graves.
		It is a story of one woman's undying love for America during a time when her name and face made her an alien in the very country she called home.
		Her story, very simply, is the stuff of Hollywood -- an epic whose characters are star-crossed lovers and embattled soldiers, villainous lawyers, politicians and journalists, and one heroic woman who quietly endured the lies in a vain attempt to live a simple life.
	www.weeklywire.com /ww/01-20-98/chicago_cover.html (2829 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| Yasujiro Ozu:Tokyo Story
		His most famous film, and certainly one of his masterpieces, is Tokyo Story.
		Returning to Tokyo, the old woman visits the widow of another son, who treats her better, while the old man gets drunk with some old companions.
		Tokyo Story was followed by eight other films, all of them as masterful, and a group named after the seasons, including Early Spring and An Autumn Afternoon.
	film.guardian.co.uk /Century_Of_Films/Story/0,4135,217142,00.html (563 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Asia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Tokyo Park Hyatt is the star of the surreally detached film Lost in Translation and the preferred hotel of Terence Conran, no pushover when it comes to impressing via hospitality.
		This has the reputation of being among Tokyo's very finest, something that was confirmed when the proprietor alarmingly told us in English that his son works in London's gastronomically and economically stratospheric Nobu.
		But just to remind you this is modern Tokyo and things are slightly mad, Asakusa also has the 22-storey HQ of Asahi Breweries, designed to look like a foaming glass of beer.
	travel.independent.co.uk /asia/article332039.ece (2012 words)

	Yasujiro Ozu
		Tokyo Story is a languidly paced, subtly poignant, and exquisitely realized story of the Hirayamas, an aging couple from the provincial town of Onomichi who travel to postwar reconstructed Tokyo in order to visit their children, who, in turn, seem to have little interest or time to be with them.
		Tokyo Story demands little from the viewer, except to sit back and absorb the sweeping, beautiful images that gradually unfold before us towards its muted, heartbreaking conclusion, and from it, derive meaning for our own frenetic existence.
		As in Tokyo Story, the atmosphere is intimate and accessible.
	www.filmref.com /directors/dirpages/ozu.html (3778 words)

	Tokyo Story
		The underlying themes of 'Tokyo Story' retain a resonance in the 21st century.
		The characterisation of 'Tokyo Story' is one of the crowning glories of this classic work of cinema.
		Really, whether 'Tokyo Story' is the greatest film of all time is irrelevant; it is undoubtedly a wonderful work of art that is fresh and poignant over half a century later.
	www.dragonsdenuk.com /reviews/tokyo_story.htm (886 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Ozu - The Noriko Trilogy (Late Spring / Early Summer / Tokyo Story) [1949]: DVD: Chishu Ryu,Setsuko ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		'Tokyo Story' is a depiction of life's disappointments and frustrations told through the eyes of an ageing couple who go to visit their grown-up son and daughter in Tokyo.
		Tokyo Story really is one of the best films ever made, and the other two films included here are also pretty good.
		Tokyo Story is also a depiction of the struggle Japan and the Japanese people felt through the post war era.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Ozu-Noriko-Trilogy-Spring-Summer/dp/B0002OHZPM (790 words)

	Wellington Film Society - TOKYO STORY
		TOKYO STORY has been singled out not so much because it is that much better than his other films, but probably because it is a little different: it has a death in it and so is presumably considered more action-packed.
		This is absolutely a film of its moment: it faithfully records everything from Tokyo's post-war rebuilding boom to the raucous and hedonistic behaviour of young people in a hot-spring hotel, the latter an early sign of the 'Sun Tribe' delinquency that was to become Japan's hottest social topic only three years later.
		And the financial plights of Koichi and Shige, one struggling to run a suburban medical practice, the other managing a tawdry hair salon, both in conspicuously unfashionable areas of the city, are observed with the same fastidious eye for social and economic demographics...
	filmsociety.wellington.net.nz /db/screeningdetail.php?id=178&sy=2005 (563 words)

	Tokyo monogatari (1953) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Plot Summary: An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude and selfishness...
		But, as more than one reviewer so far has pointed out, 'Tokyo Story' is slow, obscure, and sometimes seemingly sterile.
		No, 'Tokyo Story' is neither cold nor manipulative.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0046438 (698 words)

	Tokyo Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Tokyo Story does not have a dramatic plot or an epic scale.
		Tokyo Story is a very Japanese film, dealing as it does with the modernization of Japanese society in the 1950s and the breakup of traditional family structures.
		The housewife, whose name is no longer known, was so moved by it that for years afterward she bombarded the U.S. distributor with appeals until it was finally released in New York theaters, where Wenders later saw it.
	www.cinecosm.com /reviews/r0058.htm (541 words)

	Jonathon Delacour: Tokyo Story
		They’d come to Tokyo to visit their son and daughter, Shige and Koichi, who are not only too busy with their own lives to spend time with their parents but are finally reluctant to provide them with a place to sleep.
		In Tokyo Story, the camera moves only three times from the beginning to the end of the picture, and then with the most gentle discretion; an in this film particularly, the whole concept of “pace” (with which, significantly, Western film-makers are so apt to be obsessed) is ont so much different from ours as irrelevant.
		Interestingly, at one point at least, the Japanese subtitles for "Tokyo Story" on the Shochiku DVD mirror not what is actually said, but what was written in the original script.
	weblog.delacour.net /archives/2004/09/tokyo_story.php (1568 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Tokyo Story
		Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story (Tokyo Monogatari) 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.
		Starring Ozu regulars Chishu Ryu and Setsuko Hara, the film reprises one of the director's favorite themes—that of generational conflict—in a way that is quintessentially Japanese and yet so universal in its appeal that it continues to resonate as one of cinema’s greatest masterpieces.
		Tokyo Story is presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=217 (361 words)

	Metropolis - Feature - The China Syndrome
		In the shadow of glittering skyscrapers and trendy mini-cities, Tokyo’s derelict neighborhoods survive unchanged.
		Tokyo has plenty of support groups that are just a phone call or mouse click away.
		Chen went to Tokyo for a two-month exchange program when she was a high school student and expected Japanese people to be severe and unfriendly.
	metropolis.co.jp /tokyo/recent/feature.asp (6586 words)

	Tokyo Story
		An elderly couple's trip to visit their children in Tokyo becomes an elegy for the disintegration of the traditional Japanese family.
		As is typical for Ozu, particularly in his post-war work, this disconnect between generations in Tokyo Story is symbolic of that between the old and new Japan.
		The story’s "twist" (a crude term to apply to a movie like this, but never mind) does not need to be hidden from anybody who has taken even a passing interest in important cinema within the past 50 years.
	www.heroic-cinema.com /reviews/tokyomon (675 words)

	Amazon.com: Tokyo Story - Criterion Collection: DVD: Yasujiro Ozu,Kazuo Inoue,Chishu Ryu,Chieko Higashiyama,Setsuko ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In Ozu's gentle hands, the entire story is told between the lines, with perhaps not a single sentence of direct dialog spoken in the film.
		Yet the film celebrates the new Tokyo as much as it condemns it, and the couple admits to themselves that though their children are not as nice as they remembered, they are happy they are busy and can care for themselves.
		The movie doesn't say so, but I suspect that Noriko is so drawn to the elderly couple because she loved their son so much, and it is her way of continuing to love him, to be kind to his parents and to actually have them with her, since she can't have him with her.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005JLV7?v=glance (3345 words)

	Welcome to the Best of New Orleans! Film Review 12 09 03
		(A Sight & Sound poll of international film critics ranked Tokyo Story at No. 5.) Friday marks not only the 100th anniversary of Ozu's birth on Dec. 12, 1903, but also the 40th anniversary of his death on Dec. 12, 1963 -- while this year is the 50th anniversary of the release of the film.
		As David Bordwell, author of Ozu and the Poets of Cinema, notes in the liner notes, Tokyo Story also displays many of Ozu's deceptively intricate techniques -- most notably his fondness for shooting speakers' lines in isolation shot in deference to their words and thoughts.
		Ozu often was considered "too Japanese" for Westerners, but as this DVD release of so many anniversaries proves, Ozu and Tokyo Story are as timeless as movies can get.
	www.bestofneworleans.com /dispatch/2003-12-09/film_review3.html (354 words)

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		I find that if I can cast someone who is so like the character in the story, then there's something about their reality, there's something about everything they do that is undeniably truthful, that transcends their being non-actors and actually creates a much more powerful performance.
		So it's a cross-cultural romance, but the real story is about the relationship between the father and the daughter.
		Tokyo Story (1953) is one of 54 films made by Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963), whose work is described by Ephraim Katz in the following way: "His style is exquisite in its simplicity.
	imv.au.dk /publikationer/pov/Issue_01/Avndldg/Avndldg7.html (2523 words)

	Tokyo story Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
		There is a certain lazy sort of travel article that begins 'Tokyo " city of contrasts'.
		Splendid for a reflective movie- flavoured drink in the style of Bill Murray, but there are many thousands of better, not to say affordable, places to eat in Tokyo.
		But to experience the rest of the Tokyo Park Hyatt is to experience what is very likely the ultimate in modern, international hotel- keeping.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20051210/ai_n15921464 (957 words)

	MoMA.org \| The Collection \| Yasujiro Ozu. Tokyo Story (Tokyo Monogatari). 1953
		Tokyo Story is one of the greatest masterpieces of Japanese cinema.
		But the viewer is compensated by the intensity of feeling his domestic dramas engender and by the sincerity of his message.
		The film explores family dynamics and the conflict of the traditional versus the contemporary through an aging couple's visit to their adult children in the city.
	www.moma.org /collection/browse_results.php?object_id=89495 (421 words)

	"Tokyo Love Story" (1991) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Story is just average, but actress makes the difference,
		This is a story of 5 men and women engaged in a love relationship.
		Kanji (Oda Yuji), a newcomer to Tokyo, is being encouraged by the bubbly Rika (Suzuki Honami).
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0206518 (308 words)

	Dual Lens - Tokyo Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Watching Tokyo Story, though the style of the film had an interesting effect on me. The unusual camera placement made me feel somewhat outside of the action of the scene, like an observer.
		The story concerns an elderly couple, the Hirayamas, who travel to the Tokyo to visit their children.
		By carefully stretching out the story, the film shows us the series of small misunderstandings, oversights, and thoughtless moments that underlie the Hirayama’s disappointment with their visit.
	www.duallens.com /index.asp?reviewid=33103 (855 words)

	eBay.co.uk - Tokyo Story, DVDs, DVD, Film TV items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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	search.ebay.co.uk /Tokyo-Story_W0QQfclZ4QQfnuZ1 (244 words)

	Theme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In literature, a theme is the main idea of the story, or the message the author is conveying.
		Not all stories have explicit themes (they are optional in escapist fiction).
		However, some readers would say that, because all stories choose certain areas of life to focus on and deal with, all stories inherently project some kind of outlook on life that can be taken as a theme, regardless of whether or not this is the intent of the author.
	www.jahsonic.com /Theme.html (1478 words)

	Ozu Tokyo Story
		An elderly couple from the provincial city of Onomichi travel up to Tokyo to visit two of their children, who are now grown and busy with concerns of their own.
		The simple story of how these loving parents accept the painful arc of their lives is moving and profound, and has led critics to name Yasujiro Ozu’s 1953 movie Tokyo Story one of the greatest films of all time.
		Included here is a complete translation of the Japanese screenplay to Tokyo Story, critical observations by film expert Donald Richie on Ozu’s filmmaking, a filmography, and 20 stills.
	www.stonebridge.com /OZU/ozu.html (380 words)

	Tokyo Story DVD at Video Universe
		The Japanese family’s transformation by modern, Western culture formed the core theme of director Ozu's work, and this motif is crystallized in an exquisite, intimate story of alienation and reconciliation in TOKYO STORY.
		Yasujiro Ozu’s most widely distributed and best-known film presents the story of an elderly couple in post World War II Japan who come to Tokyo to visit their various children and realize that the family has essentially fallen apart.
		The film's story is based on screenwriter Kogo Noda's recollections of the Leo McCarey film, MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW--a movie that similarly examines the emotional consequences of inter-generational conflict.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/movie/pid/6262698/a/Tokyo+Story.htm (649 words)

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		Yasujiro Ozu et al - Tokyo Story: The Ozu/Noda Screenplay
		War in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay The Story of the Bitter Struggle in the Pacific Theater of World War II Featuring Commissioned Photographs of Artifacts fr
		A Hong Kong comedy that encompasses a startling array of genre and tone within its story, MOONLIGHT IN TOKYO stars Leon Lai as Jun, an intellectual lightweight whose family has abandoned him in Tokyo.
	www.shopping.com /xGS-Tokyo_Story (430 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - Tokyo Story (1953), Yasujiro Ozu, Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, dvd review
		In the film, an elderly couple visits their busy grown children in Tokyo and finds that they've become a burden.
		But when the mother returns home and falls ill, the children race to be by her side and bicker about who gets her things.
		Ozu gets straight to the emotional truth of the story without casting judgment or collapsing in to sentimentality; he understands all these characters and where they come from.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /classic/tokyostory.shtml (501 words)

	Tokyo Story
		Ozu's Tokyo Story is a serene and contemplative look at the breakdown in the relationship between grown children and their elderly parents shortly after World War II.
		When Koichi is called to visit a patient and Shige cannot leave her beauty salon, the Harayamas postpone a sightseeing trip and start to complain that they expected the children would be living in more comfortable circumstances.
		When they get back to Tokyo, Shige tells them she has a meeting scheduled at her house and Tomi decides to spend the night with Noriko.
	www.talkingpix.co.uk /ReviewsTokyoStory.html (411 words)

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