Tokyo Story is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujiro Ozu and starring Chishu Ryu and Chieko Higashiyama about an aging couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their grown children.
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11 Facts About Tokyo Story
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Tokyo Story is widely regarded as Ozu's masterpiece and today as one of the greatest films in history of cinema.
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The couple travel to Tokyo Story to visit their son, daughter, and widowed daughter-in-law.
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Noriko travels from Onomichi back to Tokyo Story, contemplating the watch, while Shukichi remains behind, resigned to the solitude he must endure.
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Tokyo Story was inspired by the 1937 American film Make Way for Tomorrow, directed by Leo McCarey.
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Differences include the older film taking place in Depression-era US with the couple's problem being economical and Tokyo Story taking place in post-war Japan, where the problems are more cultural and emotional.
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The site's consensus reads: "Tokyo Story is a Yasujiro Ozu masterpiece whose rewarding complexity has lost none of its power more than half a century on".
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Tokyo Story is included in film critic Derek Malcolm's The Century of Films, a list of films which he deems artistically or culturally important, and Time magazine lists it among its All-Time 100 Movies.
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Tokyo Story is often admired as a work that achieves great emotional effect while avoiding melodrama.
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Tokyo Story was voted at No 14 on the list of "100 Greatest Films" by the prominent French magazine Cahiers du cinema in 2008.
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