---
title: 'Tokyo Story (1953)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Yasujirō Ozu'
released: '1953-11-03'
runtime_minutes: 136
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Japan'
themes:
  - 'Parents and Children'
  - 'The Wordless Stretch'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/tokyo-story-1953'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046438/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Tokyo Story (1953)

1953 · 136 min · Drama · Japan

Original title: 東京物語
Part of: Noriko Trilogy

## Synopsis

Tokyo Story  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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Yasujirō Ozu](https://cinepixo.com/people/yasujiro-ozu)
- **Screenplay:** [Yasujirō Ozu](https://cinepixo.com/people/yasujiro-ozu), [Kōgo Noda](https://cinepixo.com/people/kogo-noda)
- **Producer:** [Takeshi Yamamoto](https://cinepixo.com/people/takeshi-yamamoto)
- **Director of Photography:** [Yūharu Atsuta](https://cinepixo.com/people/yuharu-atsuta)

## Cast

- [Haruko Sugimura](https://cinepixo.com/people/haruko-sugimura)
- [Eijirō Tōno](https://cinepixo.com/people/eijiro-tono)
- [Kuniko Miyake](https://cinepixo.com/people/kuniko-miyake)
- [Kyōko Kagawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/kyoko-kagawa)
- [Sō Yamamura](https://cinepixo.com/people/so-yamamura)
- [Nobuo Nakamura](https://cinepixo.com/people/nobuo-nakamura)
- [Setsuko Hara](https://cinepixo.com/people/setsuko-hara)
- [Chieko Higashiyama](https://cinepixo.com/people/chieko-higashiyama)
- [Chishū Ryū](https://cinepixo.com/people/chishu-ryu)

## Themes & motifs

- [Parents and Children](https://cinepixo.com/topics/parents-and-children) (theme) — Ozu films the visit and the silence around it: grown children too busy for parents who travelled a long way, and a widowed daughter-in-law who is kinder than either son.
- [The Wordless Stretch](https://cinepixo.com/topics/the-wordless-stretch) (motif) — Ozu holds on a corridor, a wall, laundry on a line after the people have left; the grief lands in those held shots rather than in any line of dialogue.

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/tokyo-story-1953
Film facts: Wikidata (Q26060); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.