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  • 1972
  • Not Rated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 2 h 16 m
  • 1972
  • Not Rated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 2 h 16 m

Summary Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story follows an aging couple, Tomi and Sukichi, on their journey from their rural village to visit their two married children in bustling, postwar Tokyo. Their reception is disappointing: too busy to entertain them, their children send them off to a health spa. After Tomi falls ill she and Sukichi return home, while...

Directed By: Yasujirô Ozu

Written By: Kôgo Noda, Yasujirô Ozu

  • 1972
  • Not Rated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 2 h 16 m
  • 1972
  • Not Rated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 2 h 16 m

Tokyo Story

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 132 User Ratings
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Summary Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story follows an aging couple, Tomi and Sukichi, on their journey from their rural village to visit their two married children in bustling, postwar Tokyo. Their reception is disappointing: too busy to entertain them, their children send them off to a health spa. After Tomi falls ill she and Sukichi return home, while...

Directed By: Yasujirô Ozu

Written By: Kôgo Noda, Yasujirô Ozu

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Delicately constructed and deliberately leisurely, TOKYO STORY allows its dramatic content and thematic concerns to envelop an audience the way social mores envelop the films' characters.
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Ozu's is a cinema of distillation: no jagged cuts and tracks, just a serenely still camera allowing a purity of emotion to trickle free. The result is a quiet, devastating poignancy that gently envelops you en route to an absolute tear-streamer of an ending.
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8.2
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Universal Acclaim Based on 132 User Ratings
8.2
87% Positive
115 Ratings
4% Mixed
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9% Negative
12 Ratings

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S2P_cinephile
Jul 28, 2023
TOKYO STORY merely is the definition of perfection. The story of family life that will always be discussed, never get old and be told forever.
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abc1234567890
Mar 20, 2023
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Ozu may have made subtler films, but the clarity of his social critique here is wrenching and unassailable.
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The movie...remains perhaps the wisest of family dramas, an experience as wrenching as it is restorative.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW
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In this exquisite merging of specific and universal, infinite and infinitesimal, Tokyo Story perhaps most clearly illuminates that Ozu is not the most Japanese of filmmakers, but the most human.
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[Hara's] sad dignity and emotional generosity are compelling.
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Tokyo Story is a work of considerable restraint. And all the more affecting for it.
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angelkld0074734
Aug 7, 2019
This movie is a masterpiece! Ozu's works were all worthy of attention and this, as well as floating weeds, are among the best films of all time. Being brief: this film is an emotional journey 100% worth taking.
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JLuis_001
Apr 23, 2019
A very dense and slow film. Although its duration is not excessive it feels that way. That doesn't mean in any way that this is a bad film because without a doubt it's perhaps one of the best dramas I've seen in my life but it's a very slow film that needs attention, patience and taste for this kind of cinema to be able to appreciate all its angles and qualities. And I doubt I made it completely.
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MasterRiley
Sep 21, 2016
Tokyo Story is a beautifully made film with good performances, revolutionary cinematography techniques, and an emotionally engaging story. I would recommend it to anyone looking for a heart felt family driven film.
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Lelchelsea
May 2, 2015
One of the most raw and emotionally gripping movies that I have ever seen. Truly was one of the rare movies that is able to immerse you into a the lives of others that we ourselves can truly feel related to Masterpiece that will stand the test of time
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jack977
Jan 25, 2014
Perhaps the greatness of Tokyo Story lies in the fact that it never judges its characters or their actions. It merely observes, almost making voyeurs of us, the viewers.
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Production Company Shochiku, Entertain Me Productions
Release Date Mar 13, 1972
Duration 2 h 16 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline As long as life goes on, relationships between parents and children will bring boundless joy and endless grief.
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Awards

Mainichi Film Concours
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
British Film Institute Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Online Film & Television Association
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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