Tokyo Story (東京物語, Tokyo Monogatari)

14:00 Tuesday 28 October
14:00 Thursday 30 October
10:30 Saturday 1 November
14:00 Sunday 2 November (Doors open 20 minutes before showtime)

Yasujiro Ozu’s quietly overpowering masterpiece tells a deceptively simple tale of an elderly couple who journey to Tokyo, where they are received less than enthusiastically by their grown-up children; then generational conflicts are stilled momentarily by death. Ozu unfolds his story with warmth and quiet emotion, but at the heart of his Old World civility is a vision of alienation in the modern world as powerful as any by Antonioni and Bergman. Ozu’s unique style a subtle interplay of rhythm, detail, and restraint has become legendary; there is no better introduction to his method than Tokyo Story.

“One of greatest of all Japanese motion pictures.” – Donald Richie.

1953 / 135min / 35mm / English Subtitled

Director：Ozu Yasujiro

Cast：Ryu Chisyu, Higashiyama Chieko, Hara Setsuko,
Kagawa Kyoko, Yamamura Soh, Sugimura Haruko

Adult:￥1300 Child:￥650(under 15 years old)

*Tickets will be available from 13 September,
at Kamakura City Kawakita Film Museum.