Yasujiro Ozu used the frontal switching of the screen, the strict adjustment of the size of the characters in the composition, and the simple and neat dialogue to show bluntly that the traditional large family system is irreversibly moving towards a slow disintegration process.
Yasujiro Ozu's "Tokyo Story", named directly after "Monument", also expresses the profound feelings of grief. For example, when the parents arrived in Tokyo, whether it was the eldest son or the daughter's performance, especially the daughter, she bought cheap dim sum, and because of fear of trouble, she sent her parents to Atami to stay in a cheap hotel (the scene before the scene is still a quiet harbor, but The next paragraph shows the restlessness of the hotel. The difference between the two forms a sharp contrast). After the death of the mother, the beautiful kimono and the fine linen that the mother left behind are also the ones that I am worried about. and the one drinking in the tavern. At the scene, three old friends from the old days were drinking and chatting together, because the father played by Chishu Ryu had no place to spend the night. Two of his friends wanted to accompany him to drink all night, and they also talked about the parents, but in the end, it was the father who had no place to spend the night. The situation is the best, and I am envied by two friends who have a family. The film does not directly express this strange criticism between people when the Japanese economy began to develop shortly after World War II. Drinking and chatting at home often shows that the old traditional family and concepts are gradually being disintegrated, and the feelings of grief are slowly revealed.
"Tokyo Story" is a masterpiece of Yasujiro Ozu, the film tells about the alienation of Japanese family relations. The old couple thought their children had a good time in Tokyo, but they didn't expect that they were nothing but trying to make money. The trip to Tokyo did not bring happiness to the old couple. The old lady Zhou Ji died of illness shortly after returning home. In the end, the old man lonely watched the long shots of the ships in front of the door and was very moving..
