Ozus Tokyo Story A thematic and cinematic analysis of post World War II Japan essays

Ozus Tokyo Story A thematic and cinematic analysis of post World War II Japan essays Yasujiro Ozu's cinematic classic "Tokyo Story" portrays the essentially divided nature of old and young individuals, even within the same family, that existed in Japan during the immediate aftermath and cultural shift that occurred as a result of that nation's loss of World War II. The film depicts a mother and a father who temporarily travel from the rural, Japanese countryside and their old way of life to visit their urban children in Tokyo during this period of Japanese history. The general title of "Tokyo Story" suggests the generalized nature of the story in modern Japan. The film was made in 1953 and depicts recent post-war Japan, shortly after the peace treaty ending the ear and the reconstruction of the Asian nationthus, it looks back on a recent period of history, not from afar, but with a critical and often sorrowful eye as to what was recently lost, and examines how recent events have taken turn for the worse in terms The mother and father visit children whom are extremely ungrateful of the sacrifices made by their parents for their welfare in. The children do not reject their parents for coherent ideological reasons that directly correlate to World War II. Rather, the children are show to feel, by and larger, that they are too busy to get to know their aging parents any better. Their contemporary, urban lifestyles do not mesh with their parent's slower rhythms and manners. The past filial sense of obligation is dead in Japan, suggests the film. The sense of responsibility children should feel for their parents is dead, and only sorrow is left behind. However, certain connections between old and young, however tenuous remain, at least in some form. The connection between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is one such connection. For instance, the mother of the tale spends a night of emotional sharing and intimacy with the widow o...