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Tokyo Story

November 3rd, 2003 by Doug Cummings · Comments Off

Although Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963) was one of the more popular filmmakers in Japan for decades, his work wasn’t widely distributed in the West until 1972, when Tokyo Story (1953) debuted at the New York Film Festival. Since that time, several somewhat daunting studies of Ozu’s work have been published in English (Paul Schrader’s Transcendental [...]

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