Tokyo Story - Film Screening

Course Description

Part of our film series 'A Brief Introduction to Japanese Cinema'. 

Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)

Ozu’s most famous film is a typically moving study of middle-class family life. When an elderly couple travel to Tokyo to visit their family, they find themselves spurned by their offspring; only their widowed daughter-in-law is pleased to see them. Beautifully understated, this was voted the third greatest film of all time by the critics of Sight and Sound in 2012.

Course fee includes screening, introductory lecture and tea/coffee

James Ballands BA MA PhD

Term: Spring

Day: Saturday

Start Date: 9 March 2019 

Time: 9.15am-12pm

No. of weeks: 1

Full fee: £11

Venue: City Screen Picturehouse in York

Booking are being taken now for the full series. Tickets for individual films are available at:

2 March 2019 Rashomon

16 March 2019 When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

23 March 2019 Woman of the Dunes