Tokyo Story
1953 · directed by Yasujirō Ozu
- Rating
- 100/100
- Hit
- yes
- Prestige lists
- BFI Top 100, TSPDT 250, Criterion
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, rates 100/100 — a hit. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.
Cast
- Chishū Ryū
- Chieko Higashiyama
- Setsuko Hara
- Haruko Sugimura
- So Yamamura
- Kuniko Miyake
- Kyōko Kagawa
- Eijirō Tōno
- Nobuo Nakamura
- Shirō Ōsaka
Crew
- Yûharu Atsuta — Director of Photography
- Yoshiyasu Hamamura — Editor
- Takanobu Saitō — Original Music Composer
- Kōgo Noda — Screenplay
- Yasujirō Ozu — Screenplay
More from Yasujirō Ozu
- Late Spring (1949) — 99/100 · hit
- Late Autumn (1960) — 87/100 · hit
- Early Summer (1951) — 87/100 · hit
- Floating Weeds (1959) — 85/100 · hit
- An Autumn Afternoon (1962) — 85/100 · hit
- Tokyo Twilight (1957) — 85/100 · hit
How these numbers work: Methodology