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1953 · Movie · 2h 17m · Not Rated

Tokyo Story

CriticsCritics: 100
AudienceAudience: 8.3

An elderly couple travel from their seaside village to Tokyo to visit their grown children. Hoping to reconnect, they instead find their family absorbed in work and daily obligations, while a widowed daughter-in-law offers them the warmth and companionship they long for.

My take

You may enjoy this if you appreciate patient, understated family dramas about aging, changing relationships, and loneliness; Not for you if you prefer fast pacing, dramatic twists, or highly eventful stories.

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Cast

Chieko HigashiyamaChishū RyūSetsuko HaraHaruko SugimuraSo YamamuraKuniko MiyakeKyōko KagawaEijirō Tōno

Director

Yasujirō Ozu

If tonight is a Tokyo Story night…

…these live in the same corner of my head.

Want one picked out for tonight?

Tell me what kind of night it is — I'll do the rest.