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13 March 1972 (USA)
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Plot:
An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city; but the children have little time for them. full summary | full synopsis
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2 wins
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Still Talking (to Hirokazu Kore-eda)
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(From CinemaRetro. 1 October 2009, 12:35 PM, PDT)
Still Talking (to Hirokazu Kore-eda)
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Considered Ozu's masterpiece
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Chishû Ryû | ... | 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) |
| Tôru Abe | ... | Train employee |
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Tokyo Story (USA)
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136 min
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Voted #7 in Total Film's 100 Greatest Movies Of All Time list (November 2005).
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Revealing mistakes: The "dead" mother is visibly breathing.
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"Tokyo Story" is considered Ozu's masterpiece; it continues to be one of the most widely admired of Ozu's films, and one of the most immediately accessible. The theme of the disintegration of a family as a microcosm of societal changes is one which is universal: this is the theme of Ford's "How Green Was My Valley", of Welles's "The Magnificent Ambersons", of Satyajit Ray's "The Music Room", but Ozu is able to tell his story without the usual paraphernalia of melodrama. The story unfolds in an almost lifelike fashion, and we in the audience feel as if we are eavesdropping on this family. Gradually, small details and little incidents build, until such scenes as the widowed daughter-in-law's confession of loneliness create an overwhelming empathy.