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I don't think I've been as profoundly affected by a film in a long, long time. I can't get it out of my mind and plan to watch it again today after the Red Sox game.Thank you, Victor, for shaming some of us into watching this. You;ve done me a big favor. I will tresure this one the rest of my life.
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...I hope you'll continue to explore Ozu films - Tokyo Story is his most famous film but more Ozu treasures await.Ozu's first masterpiece was a silent - "I Was Born But..." - that will always be on my list of greatest films of all time. Even if you don't like silents, it's a wonderful movie and very easy to watch. The humanity and subtle, restrained style of this master filmmaker is already clearly in evidence. One of the best movies about children ever made IMO. (I believe it's only on VHS bit it's WORTH it.) "The Story of Floating Weeds" is another outstanding Ozu silent, which he later remade into his first color film, also called "Floating Weeds". Lost love, deceit, family, failed ambition...all explored amid the backdrop of a down and out theater company playing a small fishing village.
Tokyo Story is part of a loosely connected "trilogy" of films centering on family life and starring Setsuko Hara as "Noriko". The other two are "Late Spring" and "Early Summer", which I also highly recommend.
Like "A Story of Floating Weeds", Ozu remade it, and the new title is 'Good Morning'. That film is available on DVD from Criterion, but in a no frills version.
is another film that is about as good as it getsGrins
That is one of the few movies I bought on VHS rather than wait for a dvd to come out. Ozu did a great job of portraying people caught in the generation gap and in the middle of changing social values. Ozu seemed rather fond of using Chishu Ryu in his films and I can see why... he plays a marvelous old man.
Thank you rico, it is always very nice when someone else agrees with your assessment... not because it strokes your ego (like in this case, when mine wasn't even the first mention of this wonderful film, I simply amplified the point someone else already made), but simply because in this hobby we are to some degree lonely wolves. As soon as you leave the multiplexes, the audience and discussion group shrink immediately. So places like this one really make a lot of sense - we all have gotten some great recommendations here - the world of good movies is so vast that one one can travel it all by himself... not in twenty life times!
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