| Tokyo Story | |
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| Directed by | Yasujirō Ozu |
| Screenplay by | Kogo Noda Yasujirō Ozu |
| Produced by | Takeshi Yamamoto |
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| Cinematography | Yūharu Atsuta |
| Edited by | Yoshiyasu Hamamura |
| Music by | Takanobu Saitō |
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| Distributed by | Shochiku |
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Running time | 136 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Languages | Japanese, English |
| Box office | ¥132 million (Japan rentals) 177,456 tickets (Europe) |
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.
Tokyo Story is widely regarded as Ozu's masterpiece and one of the greatest films in the history of cinema. It was voted the greatest film of all time in the 2012 edition of a poll of film directors by Sight and Sound magazine.