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“One of the manifest miracles of the cinema” ( The New Yorker ), TOKYO STORY has regularly placed on the Top Ten list of most polls, along with RULES OF THE GAME, THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC, and CITIZEN KANE. It should be seen at least once, if not once a year. An elderly couple journeys to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude, and self-absorption. The traditional tatami-and-tea domesticity fairly crackles with vexation and discontent; only the placid daughter-in-law (Setsuko Hara, summoning up a life of disappointment) shows any kindness to the old people. When they are packed off to a resort by their impatient children, the film deepens into an unbearably moving meditation on mortality. “One of the greatest of all Japanese motion pictures. Ozu's style, now completely refined, utterly economical, creates a film which is unforgettable because it is so right, so true, and because it demands so much from an audience” (Donald Richie).
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