Tokyo Story (1953)

Original title

東京物語

Directed by

Yasujirō Ozu

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 16m

Rated

10

Rating

8.2 of 10 from 1,233 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An elderly couple leaves their small town to visit their grown children in Tokyo. They find their children are too busy with their own lives to spend much time with them.

slow-burnmelancholicquietreflectivepoignantunderstatedbittersweetgentlecontemplative

What happens

Tokyo Story (Japanese: 東京物語, Hepburn: Tōkyō Monogatari) is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and starring Chishū Ryū and Chieko Higashiyama, about an aging couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their grown children. Upon release, it did not immediately gain international recognition and was considered "too Japanese" to be marketable by Japanese film exporters. It was screened in 1957 in London, where it won the inaugural Sutherland Trophy the following year, and received praise from U.S. film critics after a 1972 screening in New York City. Tokyo Story is widely regarded as Ozu's magnum opus and one of the greatest films in the history of cinema. It was voted the greatest film of all time in the 2012 edition of a poll of film directors by Sight and Sound magazine. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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