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Once a decade, the film magazine's sight and sound carries out a poll of directors, asking the simple question, what's the greatest movie ever made?

Last year, they asked 458 directors, including Woody Allen, Quentin Tarantino, and Martin Scorsese. In a shock result, Citizen Kane did not come top of the poll.

It was second.

The winner was a film released 60 years ago this year,

Yasujo Ozu's Tokyo Story.

Tokyo Story is a drama with the most domestic of settings.

Elderly parents come to visit their children

in the big city and gradually realize how far the generations have drifted apart. But it's the execution,

the filming, the minimal scripting, the sense of what's said and what's not, that has led viewers

since its release in 1953 to recognise the film as that rarest of things a masterpiece.

So why does a film set in a suburb in Japan's capital still resonate so strongly six decades later?

To explore this marvellous film, in this Nightwaves Landmark Edition, are the actor and director

Richard Wilson, the film critic Larushka Ivanzade, and Nakushimazu, Professor of Japanese History at Birkbeck College. Larushka, this is regularly called either the greatest or one of the greatest films in history. Why is that? And I think that could be quite off-putting, I think, for some viewers. I mean, Paul Schrader, who wrote Taxi Driver and Raging Bull,

called watching Osu a religious experience. You know, Vin Vendez called him Cinema's greatest treasure.

And yet when you come to the film, you think, what is going on? This is a very modest, very small

film. It's a very tiny story. And I think it might be confusing for some viewers, and people

have sort of seen Osu as a stear director,

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