{"id":15896,"date":"2021-09-08T16:36:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T20:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=15896"},"modified":"2021-09-08T16:36:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T20:36:09","slug":"yasujiro-ozus-noriko-trilogy-a-movie-review-part-3-tokyo-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/08\/yasujiro-ozus-noriko-trilogy-a-movie-review-part-3-tokyo-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Yasujir\u014d Ozu\u2019s Noriko Trilogy \u2013 A Movie Review \u2013 Part 3 \u2013 Tokyo Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/06\/yasujiro-ozus-noriko-trilogy-a-movie-review-part-1-late-spring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yasujir\u014d Ozu\u2019s Noriko Trilogy \u2013 A Movie Review \u2013 Part 1 \u2013 Late Spring<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/07\/yasujiro-ozus-noriko-trilogy-a-movie-review-part-2-early-summer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yasujir\u014d Ozu\u2019s Noriko Trilogy \u2013 A Movie Review \u2013 Part 2 \u2013 Early Summer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the third installment of the Noriko trilogy, Tokyo Story (1953), Setsuko Hara, once again, plays a young Japanese woman named Noriko.\u00a0 But in this story Noriko is less of a central player.\u00a0 In this tale the main action involves the visit of an elderly mother and father to visit their children living in Tokyo.\u00a0 Sh\u016bkichi and Tomi Hirayama have two sons and daughters and they have a daughter-in-law, Noriko, from their son who was killed in the war.\u00a0 The youngest daughter lives at home with them in the country.\u00a0 Their eldest son, K\u014dichi is a pediatrician in Tokyo and has two sons.\u00a0 The eldest daughter Shige is married and runs a hairdressing salon there too. Neither Koichi or Shige is anxious for the parents to stay with them.\u00a0 After tossing them back and forth for several days they split the cost for the two elderly people to stay at a resort spa.\u00a0 But the wild nightlife disturbs the sleep of Sh\u016bkichi and Tomi so they are at last forced to accept Noriko\u2019s hospitality.\u00a0 She is very gracious and generous with her time and her meager resources.\u00a0 Both Sh\u016bkichi and Tomi express how grateful they are for her generosity and her mother-in-law especially tells her that she is sad that Noriko has not remarried and restarted her life.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Sh\u016bkichi and Tomi return home to the country Tomi becomes critically ill and the family assembles at her bedside.\u00a0 When she dies the children attend the funeral but all of them leave hurriedly for home except Noriko.\u00a0 She remains with Sh\u016bkichi for several days during the bereavement.\u00a0 The youngest daughter, Ky\u014dko complains bitterly to Noriko about the selfishness of her brothers and sister.\u00a0 But Noriko defends them saying that grown children have their own lives and it is inevitable that they will drift apart from their parents.<\/p>\n<p>On the day that Noriko must return to Tokyo for work Sh\u016bkichi speaks to her about his happiness at the treatment she showed to her parents-in-law whereas his own children showed such callous disregard for their parents.\u00a0 He gives Noriko a pocket watch that belonged to Tomi.\u00a0 Noriko humbly claims that she showed no such generosity but was actually very selfish.\u00a0 Then Sh\u016bkichi renews his entreaties for her to remarry.\u00a0 Finally, after repeated inquiries she admits that she has been very lonely and she weeps.\u00a0 Afterwards we see Noriko deep in thought on the train ride home.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the very sympathetic portrayal of Noriko and the very unflattering picture that we have of Koichi, Shige and their families, we are forced to somewhat believe the opinion that it is inevitable that grown children become so absorbed by their own lives that they appear selfish to their parents.\u00a0 But admitting that much we are charmed by the respect, affection and generosity that Noriko lavishes on her mother- and father-in-law.\u00a0 Ozu must be making the point that the modern world was forcing the abandonment of the old culture that lavished respect on elders as a primary virtue and replacing it with the Western cult of commercial success.<\/p>\n<p>It is a well-made film.\u00a0 The parents and Noriko are sensitively portrayed and even the slightly caricatured siblings are well acted.\u00a0 Many of the details of the story provide human interest.\u00a0 One example is the doctor\u2019s sons displaying childish anger at their father reneging on a promised outing on account of a sick patient needing attention.\u00a0 Their peevishness in the face of an unavoidable disappointment rings true to anyone who has raised a family.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll include a conclusion for the whole series here.\u00a0 Ozu has shown how the changing world the Japanese found themselves in impacted the roles and behavior of each family member but most especially the younger women whose lives were shunted away from the traditional template that girls typically followed on their way to becoming wives and mothers.\u00a0 The various versions of \u201cNoriko\u201d act as the barometer to indicate to her family that something very different is happening in their world.<\/p>\n<p>These stories have appeal far beyond the Japanese public they were made for.\u00a0 The roles of women have radically shifted even again in our most recent times.\u00a0 And exploring the fallout from this change and noting the value that the traditional roles that women play in family life possess are worthwhile exercises.\u00a0 I recommend the Noriko trilogy for anyone who sees the value in the stories I have described in these reviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yasujir\u014d Ozu\u2019s Noriko Trilogy \u2013 A Movie Review \u2013 Part 1 \u2013 Late Spring Yasujir\u014d Ozu\u2019s Noriko Trilogy \u2013 A Movie Review \u2013 Part 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,237],"tags":[2532,43,38,1355,3261,3260],"class_list":["post-15896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","category-reviews","tag-japanese-cinema","tag-movie-review","tag-review","tag-reviews","tag-setsuko-hara","tag-yasujiro-ozu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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