102: Am I A Bad Cinephile?

Lions, Towers & Shields

Tokyo Story is on numerous lists of the best films of all time. It’s in my personal top five. This movie is considered the masterpiece by legendary filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu, and it stars his luminous muse, Setsuko Hara. Tokyo Story is a black and white time capsule of life in Japan after World War II and depicts how the war and Japan’s modernization disrupted its family dynamic. Compared with the boldness of Akira Kurosawa’s movies, it’s sedate and thoughtful, and you may easily find yourself shedding a tear or two.

Tokyo Story

Micheline Maynard with Shelly Brisbin and Nathan Alderman

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Tokyo Story

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The Movie: review/commentary on a single classic film

• Tokyo Story trailer

  • Available to stream, rent or buy digitally
  • On disc: Blu-ray

The Self-Referential LTS

• 89 89 You Can’t Be Evil In A Cardigan
• 98 Toshirô Mifune Can Get It!

Next time, we’ll watch

• King of Hearts trailer

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