Lil’ Tokyo Story (2016)
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).
Director: Matthew Lax
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Hitoshi Maskai as |
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Takenoi One as |
| Production | Matthew Lax | Producer |
| Directing | Matthew Lax | Director |
| Crew | Matthew Lax | Cinematography |
| Editing | Matthew Lax | Editor |
| Writing | Yasujirō Ozu | Writer |
| Writing | Kōgo Noda | Writer |
| Writing | Donald Richie | Writer |
| Crew | Max Scheer | Cinematography |
| Crew | Lizi Liu | Cinematography |
| Sound | Christopher Cole | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Takanobu Saitō | Music |
