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Tokyo Story
1953
· Movie
· 137 min
A
MEANRANK
88/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #29
- IMDb #259
- Google retired #951
- Rotten Tomatoes #38
- Metacritic #21
- Letterboxd #35
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #18
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #264
- Metacritic Critics #4
- Metacritic Audience #188
- Criticker #17
- Douban #55
- Kinopoisk #347
- AlloCiné #157
- Trakt #273
Every rating
78–100
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 78, highest is Metacritic critics on 100. Critics average 100, everyone else 85.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →An elderly couple travel from their small village to Tokyo to visit their grown children. Their children, preoccupied with their own lives and careers, have little time for them, treating them as a polite inconvenience. The visit reveals the gentle estrangement and quiet disappointments that can grow within a family over time.
Details
- Director
- Yasujirō Ozu
- Writers
- Kōgo Noda, Yasujirō Ozu
- Studio
- Shochiku
- Released
- 3 November 1953
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese, English
- Runtime
- 137 min
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Awards
3 wins total
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