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Tokyo Story (1953) is streaming on Max. Also available on Kanopy with a participating library card.
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You can watch Tokyo Story (1953) on Kanopy with a participating library card, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
Postwar Japan hums with a quiet, heartbreaking tension as aging parents navigate the emotional distance created by their busy, urbanized children. This slow-burning portrait of familial neglect finds its soul in the gentle kindness of a widowed relative who shows up when blood relatives won't.
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Director
Yasujirō Ozu
Cast
Chishū Ryū, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, So Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake, Kyōko Kagawa, Eijirō Tōno, Nobuo Nakamura, Shirō Ōsaka
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Tokyo Story
You can watch Tokyo Story (1953) on Kanopy with a participating library card, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.
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Director
Yasujirō Ozu
Cast
Chishū Ryū, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, So Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake, Kyōko Kagawa, Eijirō Tōno, Nobuo Nakamura, Shirō Ōsaka
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Tokyo Story is streaming on Max. Watch Tokyo Story on Kanopy with a participating library card. Rent Tokyo Story on Apple TV+. Rent Tokyo Story on Fandango At Home. Buy Tokyo Story on Apple TV+. Buy Tokyo Story on Fandango At Home. We have not verified a current option on Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Prime Video. Availability last verified October 19, 2026.