Tokyo story = Tōkyō monogatari
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Oak Lawn Public Library - AVBLU-RAY FOREIGN TOKYOOn Shelf
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Format
Blu-ray
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (136 minutes) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 Blu-ray disc.
Language
jpn
ISBN
9781604657784, 1604657782
UPC
715515110211

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General Note
Originally released as a motion picture in 1953.
General Note
Accompanying Blu-ray disc contains the same material as the DVD.
General Note
"One Blu-ray and two DVDs, with all content available in both formats"--Slip cover.
General Note
Special features: DVD Disc 1: Commentary (featuring Yasujiro Ozu scholar David Desser); Talking with Ozu (a forty-minute tribute to the director from 1993, featuring filmmakers Stanley Kwan, Aki Kaurismäki, Claire Denis, Lindsay Anderson, Paul Schrader, Wim Wenders, and Hou Hsiao-hsien); Trailer. DVD Disc 2: Ikite wa mita keredo : Ozu Yasujirō den = I lived but ... (a two-hour documentary from 1983 about Ozu's live and career, featuring interviews with actors Chishū Ryū, Mariko Okada, and Haruko Sugimura, filmmaker Shohei Imamura, critics Donald Richie and Tadao Sato); Chishū Ryū and Shochiku's Ofuna Studio (a forty-five-minute documentary from 1988 about actor Chishū Ryū's sixty-year career with Shochiku and the work he did at its Ofuna Studio). Blu-ray disc: New digital restoration from a 4k film transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray; Blu-ray includes all special features on DVDs; New English subtitle translation. Booklet featuring an essay by critic David Bordwell.
Creation/Production Credits
Directed by Yasujiro Ozu ; written by Kogo Noda, Yasujiro Ozu ; produced by Yamamoto Takeshi ; cinematography by Yūharu Atsuta ; art direction by Tatsuo Hamada ; music by Takanobu Saitō ; edited by Yoshiyasu Hamamura.
Participants/Performers
880-03,Setsuko Hara, Chishū Ryū, Chieko Higashiyama, Kyōko Kagawa, Haruko Sugimura, Sō Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake, Eijiro Tono, Nobuo Nakamura, Shiro Osaka, Hisao Toake, Teruko Nagaoka.
Description
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. Their reception is disappointing: too busy to entertain them, their children send them off to a health spa. After Tomi falls ill she and Sukichi return home, while the children, grief-stricken, hasten to be with her.
System Details
DVD, widescreen (2.40:1) presentation; 5.1 Dolby Digital surround, Blu-Ray disc.
System Details
Blu-ray, region A, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural.
Language
Blu-Ray & DVD: In Japanese with English subtitles.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Ozu, Y., Yamamoto, T., Noda, K., Hara, S., Ryū, C., Higashiyama, C., Sugimura, H., Yamamura, S., Miyake, K., Kagawa, K., Tōno, E., Nakamura, N., Ōsaka, S., Toake, H., & Nagaoka, T. Tokyo story =: Tōkyō monogatari (Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition.).

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Yasujirō Ozu et al.. Tokyo Story =: Tōkyō Monogatari. .

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Yasujirō Ozu et al.. Tokyo Story =: Tōkyō Monogatari .

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Ozu, Yasujirō, et al. Tokyo Story =: Tōkyō Monogatari Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition.,

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