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Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
日本語
Description
Tokyo Story follows an aging couple, Tomi and Sukichi, on their journey from their rural village to visit their two married children in bustling, post-war Tokyo. Their reception is disappointing: too busy to entertain them, their children send them off to a health spa. After Tomi falls ill she and Sukichi return home, while the children, grief-stricken, hasten to be with her.
2) Madadayo
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
日本語
Description
A Japanese professor, Hyakken Uchida, retires near the end of World War II and learns to come to terms with his approaching death with the help of yearly visits from his former students.
Series
Criterion collection volume 217
Publisher
Shochiku Co., Ltd
Pub. Date
1953.
Language
日本語
Description
A self-centered couple is inconvenienced by a parental visit. When the mother falls ill, her children hasten to be with her.
Series
Criterion collection volume 949
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
日本語
Description
"One of a string of late-career masterworks made by Kenji Mizoguchi in the first half of the 1950s, A Story from Chikamatsu (a.k.a. The Crucified Lovers) is an exquisitely moving tale of forbidden love struggling to survive in the face of persecution. Based on a classic of eighteenth-century Japanese drama, the film traces the injustices that befall a Kyoto scroll maker's wife and his apprentice after each is unfairly accused of wrongdoing. Bound...
