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Film Still Archive/Museum of Modern Art.
A scene from Yasujiro Ozu's 1953 "Tokyo Story"
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For the past 50 years, stories about the Japanese have mostly been told by the
Japanese. Yasujiro Ozu is among the local masters, which include Akira Kurosawa
and Nagisa Oshima, trying to define the bold, elusive Japanese style. Ozu's most
famous film, "Tokyo Story," features an elderly couple who journey to Tokyo to
visit their grown-up children. When the parents are packed off to a nosiy resort
by their impatient children, the film deepens into an unbearably moving
meditation on mortality.
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