Tokyo Story

“Hardly anything actually happens, and yet it's one of the most emotionally involving dramas ever made.”

Jamie Russell, BBC · 100

“Tokyo Story moves quite slowly by our Western standards, and requires more patience at first than some moviegoers may be willing to supply. Its effect is cumulative, however; the pace comes to seem perfectly suited to the material.”

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times · 100

“[Hara's] sad dignity and emotional generosity are compelling.”

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian · 100

“Yasujiro Ozu's portrait of familial relations, first seen in 1953, is marked by an indefinable melancholy that settles on the frame as softly as snow.”

Anthony Quinn, The Independent · 100

“Even on the basis of a limited exposure to his work, the story seems archetypal Ozu.”

Roger Greenspun, The New York Times · 100