"In its own absorbing, beautifully modulated way, Ozu's film acknowledges the horrors of the past and how they've been woven into the fabric of everyday life, somehow, miraculously, giving equal weight to both quiet despair and to hope, as well as for mourning on a grand and a very personal scale. In
Tokyo Story, there's as much emotional impact in a lowering of a glance, or in the raising a cup of sake in the comfort of close, familiar quarters, as in the rampage of a radioactive sea monster." ~ Dennis Cozzalio
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