Tokyo Story (1953)
Directed by Yasujirō Ozu · 137 min · Drama
78.3 TOPICAL score · #422 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
Tokyo Story (1953, directed by Yasujirō Ozu) has a TOPICAL score of 78.3 - ranked 422 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on critics and audience, and lowest on awards. Critics: 100% on Rotten Tomatoes · 9.6/10 critics' average · Metacritic 100. Audiences: TMDB 8.1/10 (1,273 ratings) · IMDb 8.1/10. Wikipedia covers it in 47 languages.
Why this score
Each bar: better than this % of the 6,776 films we score. How the score works.
- Critics100% on Rotten Tomatoes · 9.6/10 critics' average · Metacritic 100
- AudienceTMDB 8.1/10 (1,273 ratings) · IMDb 8.1/10
- Awards0 wins, 0 nominations
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 47 languages
- Still read33,177 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Chishū Ryū, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura
“Tokyo Story is widely regarded as Ozu's magnum opus and one of the greatest films in the history of cinema.”
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