An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude and selfishness. When the parents are packed off to a resort by their impatient children, the film deepens into an unbearably moving meditation on mortality.
Tokyo Story has countless times been listed as one of the greatest films ever made. Critics and movie magazines all over the world has placed it at the top for over 50 years. There's no denying that this is one of those classics you need to see at least once in your life. Director Yasujiro Ozu uses his own distinctive camera style where the camera height is low and never moves, his so called "tatami-mat"-shot. Whole scenes are being shot this way in one take and it always gives me a rush when it doesn't cut to another shot in a long time, and to me it creates a sort of intense bond between the viewer and the film. You're not watching these folks at their dinner table, you're sitting down with them. A family centered story dealing with a probably all too plausible scenario in many households.
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