Tokyo Story Blu-ray

Release Year: 1953

Runtime: 137 min

Director: Yasujirō Ozu

Cast: Chishū Ryū, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, So Yamamura

Studios: Shochiku

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

Special Features:

New digital restoration from a 4K film transfer

with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

Audio commentary

featuring Yasujiro Ozu scholar David Desser, editor of Ozu’s 'Tokyo Story'

I Lived, But . . .

a two-hour documentary from 1983 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 work

at Shochiku’s Ofuna Studio, featuring an interview with Ryu

Trailer

New English subtitle translation

PLUS

An essay by critic David Bordwell

Technical Specifications:

• 136 MINUTES
• BLACK & WHITE
• MONAURAL
• IN JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
• 1.33:1 ASPECT RATIO