Tokyo Story (BFI Film Classics) - Softcover

Phillips, Alastair

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1911239236 ISBN 13: 9781911239239

Publisher: British Film Institute, 2022

Synopsis

This BFI Film Classics study of Tokyo Monogatari/Tokyo Story (1953) reveals the making, meaning and legacy behind Ozu Yasujiro's masterpiece.

Ozu's moving family drama is universally acknowledged as one of the most significant Japanese films ever made. In its complex portrait of human motivation and lively sense of social space, it offers a profound and poignant insight into the generational shifts of post-war Japan.

Alastair Phillips provides an in-depth analysis of the film and its key locations - the city of Tokyo, the town of Onomichi and the coastal resort of Atami - with a discussion of its representation of Japanese society at a time of great cultural change. Drawing upon Japanese and English language sources, he situates the film within various contemporary critical and industrial contexts and examines the multiple international dimensions of Tokyo Story's long after-life to understand its enormous contribution to global film culture.

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About the Author

Alastair Phillips is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of City of Darkness, City of Light: Émigré Filmmakers in Paris 1929-1939 and Rififi: A French Film Guide. He is the co-author of 100 Film Noirs (BFI Screen Guides) and the co-editor of Journeys of Desire: European Actors in Hollywood; Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts; A Companion to Jean Renoir and Paris in the Cinema: Beyond the Flaneur (2017). He is an editor of the journal Screen and serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of The Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema and the BFI Film Classics series.

Edition details

• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1911239236
• ISBN 13: 9781911239239
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112