Tokyo Story (1953) movie poster

Tokyo Story (1953)

東京物語
"As long as life goes on, relationships between parents and children will bring boundless joy and endless grief."
ThumbScore
👍 89%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 100%
Drama

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Director
Runtime
2h 17m
Country
Japan
Language
Japanese
TMDB Rating
8.2/10 (1,200 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
100%
Metacritic
100

Cast

Chishū Ryū as Shukichi Hirayama · 87% avg
Chieko Higashiyama as Tomi Hirayama
Setsuko Hara as Noriko Hirayama
Haruko Sugimura as Shige Kaneko · 88% avg
So Yamamura as Koichi Hirayama
Kuniko Miyake as Fumiko Hirayama · 89% avg
Kyōko Kagawa as Kyoko Hirayama · 86% avg
Eijirō Tōno as Numata · 85% avg

Is Tokyo Story good?

Yes. 89% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 100%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#274 / 3335 · Drama
Rank in its year
#1 / 15 · 1953

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

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. Wikipedia ↗

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