Where to Watch Tokyo Story (1972)

Fancy watching 'Tokyo Story' in the comfort of your own home? Discovering a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or watch the Yasujirō Ozu-directed movie via subscription can be a huge pain, so we here at Moviefone want to take the pressure off.

Read on for a listing of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription alternatives - along with the availability of 'Tokyo Story' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the various whats and wheres of how you can watch 'Tokyo Story' right now, here are some particulars about the Shochiku drama flick.

Released March 13th, 1972, 'Tokyo Story' stars Chishū Ryū, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura The movie has a runtime of about 2 hr 17 min, and received a user score of 82 (out of 100) on TMDb, which assembled reviews from 1,075 experienced users.

Interested in knowing what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "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."

'Tokyo Story' is currently available to rent, purchase, or stream via subscription on Amazon Video, Plex, YouTube, Fandango At Home, Plex Channel, Google Play Movies, Apple TV, Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, and Kanopy .