The 1953 masterpiece "Tokyo Story," by director Yasujiro Ozu, has been voted the greatest film of all time by 358 directors around the world, in a poll released earlier this month by Sight and Sound magazine.
The publication, by the British Film Institute, rated the late Ozu's classic story of family, loss and change over other films from better-known directors like Federico Fellini, Orson Welles, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick to make the film's claim to first place.
A related poll of 846 movie distributors, critics and academics, also placed Ozu's 1949 classic, "Late Spring," in the top 50 films of all time, along with Akira Kurosawa's 1954 "Seven Samurai" and 1950 "Rashomon," as well as director Kenji Mizoguchi's 1953 "Ugetsu Monogatari."