Fountaindale Public Library

Tokyo story, Janus Films ; a Shochiku production ; screenplay by Kogo Noda and Yasujiro Ozu ; executive producer, Takeshi Yamamoto ; directed by Yasujiro Ozu

Originally released as a motion picture in 1953Special features: Commentary (featuring Yasujiro Ozu scholar David Desser); Talking with Ozu (a forty-minute tribute to the director from 1993, featuring filmmakers Stanley Kwan, Aki Kaurismäki, Claire Denis, Lindsay Anderson, Paul Schrader, Wim Wenders, and Hou Hsiao-hsien); Trailer; I lived but ... (a two-hour documentary from 1983 about Ozu's live and career, featuring interviews with actors Chishu Ryu, Mariko Okada, and Haruko Sugimura, filmmaker Shohei Imamura, critics Donald Richie and Tadao Sato); Chishu Ryu and Shochiku's Ofuna Studio (a forty-five-minute documentary from 1988 about actor Chishu Ryu's sixty-year career with Shochiku and the work he did at its Ofuna Studio); new digital restoration from a 4k film transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; new English subtitle translation; PLUS: an essay by critic David Bordwell

black and white

unknown

Cinematography by Yuharu Atsuta ; art direction by Tatsuo Hamada ; music by Takanobu Saitō ; edited by Yoshiyasu Hamamura

other

Blu-ray special edition.

9781681431260

videodisc

Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Haruko Sugimura, So Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake, Kyoko Kagawa, Eijiro Tono, Nobuo Nakamura, Shiro Osaka, Hisao Toake, Teruko Nagaoka

1 videodisc (136 min.), Blu-ray, sound, black and white, 4 3/4 in. +, 1 insert.

sound on medium

videodisc

1707846(OCoLC)ocn946041189(OCoLC)9460411891691077

Blu-ray; NTSC; region A; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; monaural; Dolby Digital; requires Blu-ray playerBlu-ray

715515172318

CC2603BD -- Criterion Collection

Blu-ray disc