One feels a risk in identifying Doris Dorrie's
Cherry Blossoms as inspired by Yasujiro Ozu's
Tokyo Story -- this is mostly due to the spate of homages (and outright remakes) that we know from Hollywood, which usually take the form of poor copies and imitations, most of them pale and superficial, the bulk (if not the entirety) of their inspiration to be found solely in the starting notion of the homage, and derived from the original.
Cherry Blossoms is, indeed, inspired by
Tokyo Story, but its inspiration goes a lot further than that starting point, and the resulting movie is neither pale nor superficial. Indeed, it has fresh inspiration oo...
Released:
2008
Rated:
n/a
Length:
124 mins