Tokyo Story

Yasujirō Ozu · 1953 CE · Film · Japanese · Contemporary

An elderly couple travel from the coast to Tokyo to see the children they raised, who fit them in between clinic hours and salon appointments. Only their widowed daughter-in-law makes time for them. Disappointment rendered without one raised voice.

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Lineage

• parallels ↑ The Cherry Orchard
  Anton Chekhov · 1904 CE · Play
• ↓ An Artist of the Floating World
  Kazuo Ishiguro · 1986 CE · Novel — influenced by this
• ↓ Yi Yi
  Edward Yang · 2000 CE · Film — influenced by this

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