
Lil’ Tokyo Story

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 · 4 films with wallpapers
Matthew LAX is a filmmaker, artist and writer interested in power and group dynamics. Lax works between New York and Los Angeles and often collaborates with non-actors and the “everyday ensembles” found within families, lovers, hobby clubs, athletic teams and kink communities. Lax’s writing and organisational work focuses on narratives of production, labour and critical exchange. Lax received a BF…
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