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A. O. Scott looks back at Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story, a film about growing up and growing old. Related Link: http://nyti.ms/aDIIzR Subscribe to the Times Video newsletter for free and get a handpicked selection of the best videos from The New York Times every week: http://bit.ly/timesvideonewsletter Subscribe on YouTube: http://bit.ly/U8Ys7n Watch more videos at: http://nytimes.com/video --------------------------------------------------------------- Want more from The New York Times? Twitter: https://twitter.com/nytvideo Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nytimes Google+: https://plus.google.com/+nytimes/ Whether it's reporting on conflicts abroad and political divisions at home, or covering the latest style trends and scientific developments, New York Times video journalists provide a revealing and unforgettable view of the world. It's all the news that's fit to watch. On YouTube. Critics' Picks: 'Tokyo Story' http://www.youtube.com/user/TheNewYorkTimes
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Watched this again last night. Ozu is a wonderful story teller. Hardly any action but you just can't stop watching. "Isn't life disappointing?" "Yes, it is." All said stoically in the aftermath of WWII.
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it reminds me of a verismo opera set in japan without the singing
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a.o. Scott is dead on. Tokyo Story is flawless
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I watched yesterday. Thanks for the this incredible tip. Regards from Brazil!
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subtitles overlay subtitles because of...reasons?
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Having just seen this, I think the kids (other than the one living in Osaka) kind of get a bum rap. They seem to genuinely care for their parents, but obviously, live modern and independent lives. I saw no cruelty, but of course, it is quite the cultural shift from traditional filial devotion. Still, these kids are in no way disrespectful or ungrateful, at least, not in my mind.
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The guy presenting this looks like Benjamin Linus from LOST
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Is it normal for a 17 year old like me to appreciate films like this? It's simplicity is what makes it masterful. Ive always liked films that reminds us of things that we forget and take for granted
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is weird how this movie never won an oscar
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You certainly have a point. For the money he undoubtedly gets paid he could go a little deeper, tell us something that's not entirely obvious. One time he did a similar piece about "It's A Wonderful Life," and his entire point was that the movie wasn't just feel-good holiday thing, parts of it are actually very dark, like the rest of us would have missed that or something if he weren't there to point it out.
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Simply the most moving film ever made. A book never "changed my life" but this film did.
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Should do a review of ikiru.
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where can one watch this film on the internets?
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I just saw this movie a couple nights ago, and it is truly one of the greatest films ever made. Its overwhelming in its subtlety and evocation of longing, yet it never feels sentimental or bitter or preachy. The story is what it is. The children are neither good nor bad. They are what they are: children who have grown up and have busy lives of their own. Ozu does not condemn them for this, but there is a small stirring of sadness and some regret as you feel the passage of time slipping by.
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If you're not moved by this film I guess you don't think you're going to get old. Yeh, right.
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We watched Tokyo Story in film school as an example of "non-hollywood" framing and though I enjoy watching foreign (non-American) films and have no problems with subtitles, I kind of found the movie plodding and slow at the beginning but by the time of the mother's death I was fully into the movie and was in tears, as were many other persons in the large class I was in.
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isnt life disapointing.... ? i i felt the anger of the youngest daughter. How could the older siblings behave in this way? but then, setsuko hara, answers her in a most magnificent way: "yes, it is" and i feel, that my anger fades away. After that, when the father tells setsuko, she was better to him and his wife then teir own children, she cries because it hurts so badly, that they were threated not fair by their own children and probably realizes that yes, life is in fact very disapointing,
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the ending absolutely moved me to tears. i vaguely remember the movie's details but when i saw this all those raw emotions came sweeping back. i consider this as one of the movies truly close to my heart.
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the flower picking scene is so beautiful. She wouldn't even have to say a word for this scene to move me to tears.
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An aging couple travel to Tokyo to see their grown children, and are received with callous indifference, and unexpected warmth and friendship, from those they least expect. It's a film about life, death, human character, and the beautiful small moments of life. I cry my eyes out too when I watch it!