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).
– Cristina Kolozsváry-Kiss
Also in this combined programme
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AMERICAN FOLK
Casting tapes, old paintings and denim all prod at the idea of provenance and meaning creation. -
Fabricated in the Actual Arctic (After Nanook)
Robert Flaherty’s seminal early documentary Nanook of the North is restaged in a new context. -
Gay Men’s Book Club
Seven gay men bring their backgrounds and insights into the reading of a book about identity politics.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2016
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2025
- Length
- 4'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
