Nov 22nd
Tokyo Story*** (U)

(Slack Space, Colchester)        

(Japan 1953) 135m. bw

Two grand parents visit their adult children in Tokyo for the first time, where they are all for various reasons too busy to attend to them for long.
Slow to start, and doggedly Japanese in its style of relentless static tableau, this nonetheless deeply moving human drama comes into its own in the later stages, playing in subtle ways upon universal human values without any gloss or weepy sentiment.

d: Yasujiro Ozu
s: Chisu Ryu, Chieko Hiyashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Soh Yamamura, Haruko Sugimura, Shiro Osaka, Ejiro Tono