Tokyo Story (1953)

Essential Viewing

Japan

Feature Film
Original Title: 東京物語
Director: Ozu Yasujirō
Writers: Noda Kōgo, Ozu Yasujirō
Cinematographer: Atsuta Yuuharu
Composer: Saitō Kojun
Cast: Ryū Chishū, Higashiyama Chieko, Hara Setsuko, Sugimura Haruko, Yamamura Sō, Miyake Kuniko, Kagawa Kyōko, Tono Eijirō, Nakamura Nobuo, Osaka Shirō

Containing one of cinema’s greatest and most heartbreaking performances from Hara, Ozu’s beautifully paced and moving film, detailing an elderly couple’s sombre journey to Tokyo to visit their busy and insensitive, grown-up children, proves to be an unforgettable, deeply rewarding, and achingly sad masterpiece. Iain.Stott