Tokyo Story

Tokyo Story
Tokyo Story
	Theatrical release poster
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; Mutsuko Sakura; Toyo Takahashi; Sachiko Mitani;
Cinematography	Yūharu Atsuta
Edited by	Yoshiyasu Hamamura
Music by	Takanobu Saitō
Production; company	Shochiku
Distributed by	Shochiku
Release date	November 3, 1953;
Running time	136 minutes
Country	Japan
Languages	Japanese, English
Box office	¥132 million (Japan rentals) ; 177,456 tickets (Europe)

Tokyo Story (東京物語, 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.