Japanese Film Night - Tokyo Story

Come along to our free Japanese Film night!

This month's film is "Tokyo Story"!

When an elderly couple travel to a rapidly-rebuilding Tokyo to visit their children, they are met with unexpected indifference, ingratitude and selfishness. As the vastly different priorities of pre- and post-war Japan collide, Yasujiro Ozu's masterpiece deepens into a sublime meditation on family, ambition and mortality.

The elderly Shukichi and his wife Tomi take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

Language: Japanese with English Subtitles
Released: 1953
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Rating: PG
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 136 Minutes

Free admission is based on a first-come, first-served basis, with a full theatre capacity of 60 people.

A short Japan video topics DVD will be shown from 5:15pm before the start of the feature film at 5:30pm.