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BP318 Tokyo Story

BP318 Tokyo Story

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Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

Episode 318: Tokyo Story

Released 28 May 2025

For this episode, we watched the 1953 Japanese classic Tokyo Story, directed by Yasujirō Ozu from a screenplay by Ozu and his frequent collaborator Kogo Noda. This film came in at number 4 on the most recent Sight & Sound critics poll and has often featured in the poll’s upper reaches as well as making strong showings in many other greatest-films-of-all-time lists. It has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and 100/100 on Metacritic.

  • Influential Storytelling thesis https://gensoken.toyo.ac.jp/japanese-society-and-culture/vol3/iss1/2/
  • 16 Postcodes https://museumofcomedy.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873655309
  • https://variety.com/2025/film/awards/oscars-viewing-requirement-loopholes-1236380799/

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