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Tokyo Story is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu, with a screenplay by Kōgo Noda and Ozu. Produced by Shochiku, the black-and-white movie features Chishū Ryū, Setsuko Hara, Chieko Higashiyama, and Eijirō Tōno. The narrative takes place in Japan, including locations such as Tokyo, Atami, and Ueno Imperial Grant Park. It is part of the Noriko Trilogy and explores themes of old age.
The film has a runtime of 137 minutes and was released on November 3, 1953. It holds a Metascore of 100 and a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 100%. Other review scores include 9.6/10, 100/100, and 8.1/10. The movie has won three awards. Distribution formats include video on demand, with Netflix and providers such as HBO Max, Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, and TCM.
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Film · TMDB
8.2The 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.
Cast
- Chishū Ryū as Shukichi Hirayama
- Chieko Higashiyama as Tomi Hirayama
- Setsuko Hara as Noriko Hirayama
- Haruko Sugimura as Shige Kaneko
- So Yamamura as Koichi Hirayama
- Kuniko Miyake as Fumiko Hirayama
Themes
- fish
- beach
- dreams
- baby
- coma
- parent child relationship
- peace
- boat
- cake
- office
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Ratings
IMDb
8.1/10
76,665 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
100%
Metacritic
100/100
- Year
- 1953
- Runtime
- 137 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Awards
- 3 wins total
via OMDb · IMDb
Key facts
- Directed by
- Yasujirō Ozu
- Screenplay by
- Kogo Noda , Yasujirō Ozu
- Produced by
- Takeshi Yamamoto
- Starring
- Setsuko Hara Chishū Ryū Chieko Higashiyama Kyōko Kagawa Haruko Sugimura So Yamamura Kuniko Miyake Shirō Ōsaka Eijirō Tōno Nobuo Nakamura Hisao Toake Toru Abe
- Cinematography
- Yūharu Atsuta
- Edited by
- Yoshiyasu Hamamura
- Music by
- Takanobu Saitō
- Production company
- Shochiku
- Distributed by
- Shochiku
- Release date
- November 3, 1953 ( 1953-11-03 )
- Running time
- 136 minutes
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Box office
- ¥132 million (Japan rentals) , 177,456 tickets (Europe)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Original language
- Japanese
- Main subject
- old age
- Director
- Yasujirō Ozu
- Screenwriter
- Yasujirō Ozu
- Cast member
- Kuniko Miyake
- Production company
- Shochiku
- Narrative location
- Ueno Imperial Grant Park
- Filming location
- Japan
- Duration
- 136
- FilmAffinity ID
- 911508
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Tokyo Monogatari 1953.jpg
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- Commons category
- Tokyo Story
- publication date
- 1972-03-13
- title
- 東京物語
- color
- black-and-white
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 8.1/10
Sources (13)
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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