Tokyo Family

In this film director Yoji Yamada bows down before his teacher and role model. Yamada was assistant director on Yazujirō Ozu’s Tōkyō monogatari, a moving family portrait set after the Second World War. In his remake, Yamada has made very few departures from Ozu’s masterpiece in order to update the story of ageing couple Shukichi and Tomiko to present day Japan. Once again, the pair decides to leave their quiet lives in the country to pay a visit to their children and grandchildren in Tokyo. Once there, they discover that neither their oldest son, a doctor named Koichi, nor their eldest daughter Shigeko - who runs a beauty parlour - has time for them: both are too busy attending to their everyday concerns. Even the youngest son went his own way. The old couple feel lonely and bewildered in the fast-paced metropolis.
정하나
3.5
부모님에겐 살아 계실 때 아무리 잘 하려고 노력해도 한참 부족할 것 같다. 누군가는 이 영화를 보면서 공감이 안된다고 생각할 지도 모르겠다는 생각에 잠시 마음이 안 좋았다. 가족의 따뜻함을 느껴본 적이 없는 사람에겐 이 영화는 그저 지루하고 의미 없는 화면의 연속이겠다. 훌륭한 가족을 만난 것에 항상 감사하다…
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