There isn't much excitement or suspense in this film, it's pretty mellow. But it's a sweet story about love, family and legacy. About the existential question whether to break out or step into your parents' footsteps to keep the family business alive. It's also just nice to watch a civilization that still has its identity, culture and a semblance of community left, even in a bigger city such as Kyoto. There are still multigenerational households and small businesses and people know one another and interact like one big extended family. This no longer exists in the dying West, which has been totally ripped to shreds by multiculturalism and globalism.
Plot summary
Kyoko is a university librarian and she also helps her parents with their drycleaning company. She is involved with a childhood friend from the neighborhood, Kota. He is the son of the local tofu maker and has begun a moderately successful career as a stand-up comedian. A visiting lecturer from Tokyo falls head-over-heels in love with Kyoko and asks her to go abroad with him to Beijing, where he has to spend the next few years for his research. But Kyoko cannot decide.
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From Tokyo Story to Kyoto Story
Low-budget, little-spoken-of, spiritual sequel to renowned masterwork Tokyo Story.
While it predictably doesn't measure up to the lofty standards of Ozu Yasujirô's work, it still is worthy of its own ambition to be a tribute to that masterwork and a heartfelt praise of humbleness and the real foundations of human life. It is worthy in in every way: aesthetical, artistical, and moral.