Criterion Trailer 217: Tokyo Story

[ReplayKCF]

well I hope im not the only one that literally cried his eyes out for the last 20-30 minutes of the movie

[hotfingersandwich]

This film just highlights how pitifully bankrupt Hollywood is with regard to ideas and stories. Ozu proved that you don't need special effects, a hot rock/pop soundtrack, gimmicky cameos or any other nonsense to tell a powerful, universal story.

[MyDenis0]

people people its about the message we shoud stay close to the ones we love.

[hotfingersandwich]

@MyDenis0 Ozu's point in many of his films is that all life is transitory, making it all the more bittersweet.

[LiamCrowley1990]

I love how Ozu storyboards everything so well, literally never moves his camera yet everything is told so excellently.

[361theatreproject]

I could pwn Yasujiru Ozu, see Venerdi Fornio on my Webzone, premering next week. Isn't this movie dissapointing? Yes it is. But Venerdi Forno is not

[LiamCrowley1990]

@361theatreproject Shut up you arrogant, ignorant twat.

[YoyoFlamingo]

@361theatreproject Go back sucking your momma's teats, stupid little cunt.

[FernyBass007]

i guarantee if pearl harbor never happen, this films will be release in the u.s......and change hollywood for good.........japanese films are movies, not the stuff from hollywood of fantasies..

[karthikmmc03]

i hate the transience of life, yet it goes on , i have seen that being captured beautifully in this film and ikiru

[winshinsin]

ok... i'm feeling very insensitive because i didn't cry watching this

[JackKlompus13]

Such a beautiful film...

[comicboookguy]

After seeing this movie for the 3rd time in 25 years, I still find it the greatest ever made, and I remember why I view it so rarely: it really is hard to watch. There is little overt emotion, but the bleakness of human life is so perfectly portrayed. The slow pace, the static camera, the ordinariness of the plotline, even the black and white, all are perfect for this film.

One final thought: it is not the "bad" people who make this world so miserable, it is the average ones, thoughtlessly.

[telephilia]

I first saw this in the 60's at a cinema in Washington DC. 50 years later it still chokes me up.

[pjchmiel]

Amazing film and really gorgeous calligraphy on these titles, I love that style of lettering.

[poughkeepsiejohn1]

Here's a first-class tearjerker that's as real as rain and not cheap or mawkish in any way. This film was inspired by an American film that was quite similiar, "Make Way For Tomorrow", which will be coming out next week on the Criterion Collection.

[Aristocritic]

A wonderful film by one of cinema's greatest directors.

Almost every film he made from Late Spring onward is pure gold.

[pjbrubak]

The music was especially moving! Is that the original soundtrack to the film?

[telephilia]

A commercial entertainment medium occasionally rises to a state of nobility, grace and wisdom as in this Ozu masterwork.

[chrisj2443]

One of the finest films ever made

[SalaireDeLaPeur]

Isn't life disappointing? Yes it is...

[LandoftheShanks]

@SalaireDeLaPeur only for you.

[BOSSOMATIC]

This could be made today word for word and be just as relevant now. Ozu was amazing. A heartbreaker!!!

[comicboookguy]

@BOSSOMATIC I like that characterization, heartbreaker. It is so much better than tearjerker, in this case.

[jwnyl]

Classic Film. Very Impressive, make me cry three times during the filming.

[amdathl0n64]

Great movie.

[yellowwasp09]

wow first