Tokyo Story

On the data. One film, and its technique is as distinctive as anything in cinema. Ozu shot from a low fixed camera, roughly the eye level of a person kneeling on a tatami mat, and barely moved it. He ignored the convention that two people in conversation should not both look at the camera, so characters often appear to address the audience. Transitions are empty shots of corridors, washing lines and chimneys, held for several seconds. It topped the Sight and Sound directors' poll in 2012. Setsuko Hara plays Noriko, a character name she used in three Ozu films that are not connected to each other. She retired abruptly in 1963, at forty-two, and lived in seclusion until her death in 2015 without giving an interview. It is loosely modelled on the 1937 American film Make Way for Tomorrow, which Ozu acknowledged. Almost nothing dramatic occurs and the one event that does is handled in a single line of dialogue.

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