Directed by: Yasujiro Ozu
Featuring: Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, Nobuo Nakamura, So Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake, Kyoko Kagawa, Eijiro Tono, Shiro Osaka, Zen Murase, Mitsuhiro Mori
Year: 1953
Time: 137 min.
Series: The Criterion Collection
Edition #: 217
Licensor
Shochiku
Release Date: Tuesday, 19 November 2013
MSRP: $39.95
Dual-Format Edition
3 Discs
1.33:1
Japanese Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Japanese PCM Mono 1.0
Subtitles: English
Regions A/1
Audio commentary featuring Yasujiro Ozu scholar David Desser, editor of Ozu’s “Tokyo Story”
I Lived, But . . . , a two-hour documentary from 1983 about Ozu’s life and career, featuring interviews with critics and former cast and crew members
Talking with Ozu, a forty-minute tribute to the director from 1993, featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay Anderson, Claire Denis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Aki Kaurismäki, Stanley Kwan, Paul Schrader, and Wim Wenders
Documentary from 1988 about actor Chishu Ryu’s career at Shochiku’s Ofuna studios, featuring a lengthy interview with Ryu
Trailer
A booklet featuring an essay by critic David Bordwell