Tokyo Story

Tokyo Story has to be Ozu's greatest work. I absolutely love Japanese films and the nations native directs and I am a huge fan of filmmakers Kurosawa, Ozu and Mizoguchi. They have always influenced me and held a special place in my filmmaking mind. In Tokyo Story an elderly couple comes to Japan to visit their family and upon arriving the elderly couple's family is leaving on a trip and pays no heed to them. After those series of events a sister-in-law decides to take the couple out on the city of Tokyo. From there on out the story covers many topics from mortality, family, love, and being grateful for what you have before its gone and you realize it is too late. A very introspective film, Ozu does well to craft a well developed set of characters. He does so much like the rest of the famous Japanese writers/directors.