Yasujirō Ozu
1) The only son
Series
Criterion collection volume 525
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
日本語
Description
The only son: The story examines the motherly love of a peasant woman who gives up everything so that her son can receive education in Tokyo. Ten years later, the mother pays her son a visit in Tokyo, believing that he has become a successful young man. However, upon arrival, she is bitterly disappointed to find out that her son is working as a night-school teacher and living in poverty with his family.
Series
Criterion collection volume 217
Publisher
Shochiku Co., Ltd
Pub. Date
1953.
Language
日本語
Description
A self-centered couple is inconvenienced by a parental visit. When the mother falls ill, her children hasten to be with her.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
日本語
Description
Tokyo Story follows an aging couple, Tomi and Sukichi, on their journey from their rural village to visit their two married children in bustling, post-war Tokyo. Their reception is disappointing: too busy to entertain them, their children send them off to a health spa. After Tomi falls ill she and Sukichi return home, while the children, grief-stricken, hasten to be with her.