![]() The old couple feel lonely and bewildered in the fast-paced metropolis. 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. Once again, the pair decides to leave their quiet lives in the country to pay a visit to their children and grandchildren in Tokyo. 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. Yamada was assistant director on Yazujirō Ozu’s Tōkyō monogatari, a moving family portrait set after the Second World War. In this film director Yoji Yamada bows down before his teacher and role model. ![]()
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