Tokyo Twilight
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| Shochiku | Release Date: July 19, 1972 |
Starring:
Chishû Ryû, Haruko Sugimura, Ineko Arima, Isuzu Yamada, Kamatari Fujiwara, Kinzô Shin, Masami Taura, Setsuko Hara, Sô Yamamura, Teiji Takahashi
Summary:
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.
Ozu cherishes tradition but accepts the inevitability of loss and change, and is as all-embracing as Jean Renoir. His people may judge and not forgive, often understandably, but as one of the greatest filmmakers he does not do so. [04 Oct 2007, p.E13]
Tokyo Twilight' - [Ozu's] last black-and-white movie - takes him into unusually melodramatic territory, a dark disintegrating family saga that has broken marriages, unwanted pregnancy, gambling, prostitution, vice cops and so on. What's amazing, however, is that Ozu's narrative and visual ellipses keep sensationalism, hysteria and cliche at bay, so that it all rings true in ways undreamt of by most other directors. [10 May 2006, p.86]
Ozu is often wrongly characterized as a "soft" director preoccupied with middle-class home life, but this late film tackles extreme subject matter--spousal abuse and abortion--with unflinching skill. [18 Nov 2005, p.C6]
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