Plate Nº I
Tokyo Story
東京物語
Tōkyō Monogatari
- Director
- Yasujirō Ozu小津 安二郎
- Year
- 1953
- Studio
- Shōchiku
- Format
- 35mm · B&W
- Aspect
- 1.37 : 1
- Runtime
- 136 min
Ozu's pillow shots — empty corridors, a kettle on the stove, telegraph wires across an unmoving cloud — render absence with the same patience as presence. The camera, fixed at tatami height, refuses to flinch. What survives, in the end, is a daughter-in-law's quiet smile and the sea at Onomichi.
Read the plate→An archive of stills from the studio era — Ozu, Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, Naruse, Imamura — assembled with patience & looked at often.
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