Video Essay on Tokyo Story
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- Visual Essay of Tokyo Story.
Made for an assignment in class, that unfortunately did not get submitted due to personal reasons.
This video has been created solely for educational purposes only.
I do not own Tokyo Story or any of the clips shown in the video, neither do I own the music.
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My grandma who raised me like she was my mom has been sick for many years, our family has always relied on her and just the other day she started becoming confused and it’s been really hard. I saw this film for the first time several months back. It’s my favorite Ozu film I think. Tokyo Story is like comfort food for me.
This is a great story. I watched it yesterday and happened upon this essay. It's all true. The subtleties are what makes this film shine. You can feel the emotion of the character and get a sense of the heat and the oppressive cultural responsibilities, formalities and rituals of the Japanese people.
This should be mandatory viewing for film students. Well done.
I'm learning Japanese and theirs so much cinema to dive into 😍
loved this! You deserve more attention!
The emotion carried way through movie is awesome.cinematography in 1953 impressive.human emotional.loneliness,philosophy..its a masterpiece... Movie End with Ship Moving...
Well done. I have been digging deeper into Japanese cinema. Loving it. Would like to see an essay on Sansho the Bailiff.
One of my favourite films of all time, and one of only a small number I can watch time and again.
Loved this! Although I love Kurosawa films more, ozu is a close second. His films are certainly more on the human side of life, often dealing with themes of death, lonliness, family, acceptness and our roles in life in general
Brilliant analysis. Subscribed!
I learned so much from this video! Thanks so much!
But when Ozu does add the music the effect is stunning.
Excelente análisis! 👏👏👏
Well done analysis.
well written video essay .
Thanks for this
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If I may slightly disagree, the scene where grandma is lamenting on how she will probably not see her grandchildren grow up does indeed use sappy music like in Forrest Gump.
here is the scene, for reference: ua-cam.com/video/VFpLZwl5v80/v-deo.html
Thanks for pointing it out! It's been a long time since I made this vid (made this in y1 of film studies, I've already graduated), and honestly, there are quite a few things about the video that I'm not particularly satisfied with now. It's actually surprising that I'm still getting views and comments even after so long.
Fair enough on the music, Ozu does use music to accompany certain scenes and highlights aspects of the drama. Though I think the main difference between Ozu's use of music compared to how most of Hollywood uses it is that Ozu's music (at least to me) seems to be more concerned with highlighting the sense of the impermanence of the world more than the personal drama of the characters, while Hollywood tends to use music to enhance the personal drama. In the video, I think I was trying to highlight how Ozu would tend to not use music in moments where perhaps a filmmaker from Hollywood would choose to (such as the devastating final Setsuko Hara scene). In hindsight, I must say that the comparison is rather general and that there certainly will be variations depending on the film, scene, and filmmaker.
@@one-timonger Yeah I can definitely respect that. Hollywood movies are certainly guilty of more blatant use of music as emotional manipulation, and it always seems to stick out to me when it happens, even when it is used appropriately. It's sometimes hard to tell if I'm responding to the content of the scene or just the music. I just watched the film last night so it's fresh on my mind, and your video was one of the first to come up when I was searching for more about it. Not enough people are doing video essays on older films. All in all, yours is probably the best video I've found about Tokyo Story, so thanks for helping me understand what makes this such a staple in film history.
'Sappy' is in the ear of the beholder. A professional musician.
Stanley Kubrick must have studied Tokyo Story very, very closely.
Am I imagining things or does the shot composition used in Anime originate here? I kept getting flashbacks to My Neighbour Totoro, Laputa Castle in the Sky, Kiki's Delivery Service, Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke. I'm pretty sure myself but I'd like to know what you think.
Thanks for watching! I can't really call myself an expert on this subject but I think that while there may be similarities in cinematography, to say that shot composition in Japanese anime originated from Ozu would be an overstatement. While I do think that Ozu's films have likely influenced Japanese anime either consciously or subconsciously as Ozu's works are very influential in Japanese cinema (the series Mushishi for instance perhaps takes some influence from Ozu and the other 'mono no aware' stylists), there are certain rules to cinematic framing that are universal. Not to mention that animation is heavily influenced by art, paintings and the like, and so the composition and stillness of these images in Miyazaki's works could stem from there as well. Although, while it has been some time since I watched the films that you named, if there are low angle, tatami height shots, they would likely be influenced from Ozu (as far as I know).
I feel like some kind of idiot when I see this movie praised so much because for the life of me, I just cannot understand why this movie is so great.
Sure, it's different than American movies (breaking traditional rules, lacking any melodrama) while still conveying a universal harsh truth, but I don't know if that is "the greatest movie of all times" good. It's fine, it made me sad, but it didn't floored me or made me a crying mess. It came, it said it's piece, and then it left...
Am I a stone? Am I incapable of emotion? What is wrong with me or with this world?!?
I felt the same way, maybe it’s because the message it’s trying to convey I already understood and see it as part of life and not sad. I am still trying to understand why this movie is considered one of the greatest movies of all time when I thought it was just okay.
This movie never intended to make us cry it's subtle
Of course that's fine! There really is no one way to tell stories and really how impactful a film is, is always up to the viewer. I love the films from these filmmakers who tend to favor a realist narrative and slow pacings like Yasujiro Ozu and Hou Hsiao Hsien, though I do have friends that would fall asleep in less than 30 minutes watching their films.
U r saying like this but for me this movie is awesome.. human emotions carried,1953 cinematography,the yashojiro showed generation gap is excellent..ugly truth etc etci felt Opposite When Watching "TAXI DRIVER".i thought its good movie but not great movie.may be for Americans its great not for us.although its charecter driven movie. most of the Asians will not like ..
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