The Movie Tokyo Story

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The movie Tokyo Story is about family relations, how kids forget their loved ones specially parents and get occupy with their day to day life. Movie carries a story of an old married couple who plans to visit their kids, whom they haven’t paid a visit for a very long time. They realize that their lives are reaching the end, and wish to see what their children’s have done for themselves in their life. The couple travels to Tokyo a city in Japan, after their arrival in Tokyo, the parents are greeted warmly, but were treated ordinarily, and Kids are constantly busy with their work, present lives- appointments and have no time to spend with their old parents. The old couple was sent on sight-seeing tours of Tokyo, especially to places unsuitable for elderly visitors. Parents were not given due respect by the kids, for example when the son bought cake, daughter in law didn’t allow them to eat it, as she felt it was too expensive for them to have it. Their other daughter in law who was widow was the only family member who accepted them analysis gracefully in her house and was nice to the couple. After they left for Tokyo, on the crowded train station, the mother becomes ill and minutes after getting home she dies. The story of the film consists of a social observation on Japanese middle-class family life and an analysis of human mentality and modernity. The film didn’t focus on Japanese cultural, but overall it shows you how the younger generation view and treat their elders, especially parents. The film discusses that the children don’t like their parents once they are mature enough and they start earning money. Kids are developing American life by living independently from parents. In a daily life of ordinary people, Sense of deep a... ... middle of paper ... ...ra that added to the naturalism and reality of the film. These invisible techniques are products of the cinematography, miseen- scene, and editing that brings the focus to exterior elements of the film without disturbing the diegesis. Finally, I felt this film is a great example of Ozu’s style as a director and as a reflection of 1950’s attitude of young generation especially, Japanese culture. Tokyo story deals with the different ways the two old people and the four young people deal with the various kinds of time. Some parts are extremely emotional and can suggest ideas on more than one level of thought. The story is purposely simple in understating the necessity of the formal system and the need to guide the direction of the film. The deeper meanings and observations arise, throughout the evolution, the transition, and the non-diegetic portions of Tokyo Story.

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