Although Ozu received much acclaim in Japan, it was Tokyo Story that introduced him to the westerners. ... In this paper, I will mainly focus on the analysis of mise-en-scene elements to prove that Tokyo Story is one of the greatest of Japanese films.
This film begins with the elderly parents make the decision to leave their home in the small village of Onomichi and visit their children who are settled in parts of Tokyo. ...
The spa is crowded and noisy and the couple decides to return to Tokyo a day early only to find that there is no longer any room for them to live. ... This relative-by-marriage is also the only person who took off work to show them around Tokyo upon their arrival. After visiting the children in Tokyo, the old couple went to Osaka to visit the other son and on the way home to Onomichi, the mother falls ill.
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