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One main way, in which Tokyo Story and a classical Hollywood continuity film produce different forms of realism, is the difference between realism between the two countries. Tokyo Story is suppose to portray realism in Japan, so watching it in America and interpreting it as a realistic movie, doesn't necessary transfer over, because that might not be real to us. Where as a Hollywood movie is probably more realistic to us because we can related to it, and vise versa. Someone in Japan, watching Tokyo story can relate to that better then a Hollywood film. The themes of realism in the respective countries and cultures that the movie portrays may not transfer over to different parts of the world. But this doesn't mean it's not a realistic film. Just because the film does not transfer over from one country to the world, doesn't mean it’s not a realistic, as long as the viewer views it as realistic. Another way that they are different is the movies focus on different aspects of reality. As we saw in Tokyo Story, there was a huge emphasis on family values and, for the most part, how they care about one another and how they interact with each other, as is generally true with Asian cultures. In America, there’s generally not as big of an emphasis on things of that sort of things. The fact that the two “types” of realism films are in fact different in various ways, is also how they are both similar; they are realistic to the people watching them in their country. The key goal of a realism film is, to make the viewer feel like they are seeing something that’s real, and something that could actually happen. So even if someone in Japan doesn’t relate to what they’re seeing in a Hollywood realist film, as long as they can still see it as something that would actually happen, as something that’s real, then the film has achieved what it’s meant to do.