Tokyo Story

Tokyo Story

(Tokyo monogatari)
Jasudžiro Ozu / JPN, 1953
Japanese version / Czech subtitles, 136 min

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An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude and selfishness. When the parents are packed off to a resort by their impatient children, the film deepens into an unbearably moving meditation on mortality.

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