The Incomparable

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  Lions, Towers & Shields August 9, 2024 Tokyo Story

  102 Am I A Bad Cinephile?

  Micheline Maynard with Shelly Brisbin and Nathan Alderman

  Tokyo Story is on numerous lists of the best films of all time. It’s in my personal top five. This movie is considered the masterpiece by legendary filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu, and it stars his luminous muse, Setsuko Hara. Tokyo Story is a black and white time capsule of life in Japan after World War II and depicts how the war and Japan’s modernization disrupted its family dynamic. Compared with the boldness of Akira Kurosawa’s movies, it’s sedate and thoughtful, and you may easily find yourself shedding a tear or two.