Tokyo Story

Tokyo Story (1953)

東京物語

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

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.

Date of release
1953-11-03
TMDB
8.1 / 10 (1273)
Runtime
2h 17m
Genres
Drama
Director
Yasujirō Ozu

Casting

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

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