Tokyo Story (1953)

As long as life goes on, relationships between parents and children will bring boundless joy and endless grief.

Movie · Drama · 2h 17m · Rated 8.1/10 on TMDB · Released November 3, 1953

Overview

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.

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu

Cast

• Chishū Ryū as Shukichi Hirayama
• Chieko Higashiyama as Tomi Hirayama
• Setsuko Hara as Noriko Hirayama
• Haruko Sugimura as Shige Kaneko
• So Yamamura as Koichi Hirayama
• Kuniko Miyake as Fumiko Hirayama
• Kyōko Kagawa as Kyoko Hirayama
• Eijirō Tōno as Numata
• Nobuo Nakamura as Kurazo Kaneko
• Shirō Ōsaka as Keizo Hirayama
• Hisao Toake as Osamu Hattori
• Teruko Nagaoka as Yone Hattori

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