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Tokyo Story

by Alastair Phillips
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781911239239
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: British Film Institute
  • Publisher Imprint: British Film Institute
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 96
  • Original Price: USD 15.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 182 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Film / History & Criticism and Media Studies

This BFI Film Classics study of Tokyo Monogatari/Tokyo Story (1953) reveals the making, meaning and legacy behind Ozu Yasujiro's masterpiece.

Ozu's moving family drama is universally acknowledged as one of the most significant Japanese films ever made. In its complex portrait of human motivation and lively sense of social space, it offers a profound and poignant insight into the generational shifts of post-war Japan.

Alastair Phillips provides an in-depth analysis of the film and its key locations - the city of Tokyo, the town of Onomichi and the coastal resort of Atami - with a discussion of its representation of Japanese society at a time of great cultural change. Drawing upon Japanese and English language sources, he situates the film within various contemporary critical and industrial contexts and examines the multiple international dimensions of Tokyo Story's long after-life to understand its enormous contribution to global film culture.

Phillips, Alastair: - Alastair Phillips is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of City of Darkness, City of Light: Émigré Filmmakers in Paris 1929-1939 and Rififi: A French Film Guide. He is the co-author of 100 Film Noirs (BFI Screen Guides) and the co-editor of Journeys of Desire: European Actors in Hollywood; Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts; A Companion to Jean Renoir and Paris in the Cinema: Beyond the Flaneur (2017). He is an editor of the journal Screen and serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of The Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema and the BFI Film Classics series.

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