A shot-for-shot reimagining of the opening credits and climax of Yasujirō Ozu’s Tokyo Story (1953). Re-setting the scene in Los Angeles and recasting Noriko and Kyoko with two Japanese actors performing in drag, the film interrogates notions of language and cultural memory in split screen Japanese and English versions (with literal translations of the original dialogue into English subtitles and literal translations of the English subtitles from the Criterion version back into Japanese).

• Matthew LaxProducer · Director · Editor
• Yasujirō OzuWriter
• Kōgo NodaWriter
• Donald RichieWriter

Release date

October 20, 2016

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

7m