Tokyo Story

The first single-authored study of Yasujiro Ozu's moving family drama, Tokyo Story (1953), universally acknowledged as one of the most significant Japanese films ever made, and regularly cited as one of the greatest films of all time in polls of world-leading critics and filmmakers. Alastair Phillips combines a close analysis of the film and its key locations - the city of Tokyo, the coastal resort of Otami and the train station at Osaka - with a discussion of its representation of Japanese society at a time of great change.