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A necessary film, in the way that vegetables are necessary.
Tokyo Story
- Drama
11/3/1953
137
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.
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Cast
- Chishū RyūShukichi Hirayama
- Chieko HigashiyamaTomi Hirayama
- Setsuko HaraNoriko Hirayama
- Haruko SugimuraShige Kaneko
- Sō YamamuraKoichi Hirayama
- Kuniko MiyakeFumiko Hirayama
- Kyōko KagawaKyoko Hirayama
- Eijirō TōnoNumata
- Nobuo NakamuraKurazo Kaneko
- Shirō ŌsakaKeizo Hirayama
- Hisao ToakeOsamu Hattori
- Teruko NagaokaYone Hattori
- Mutsuko SakuraOden Restaurant Woman
- Toyo TakahashiWoman Next Door
- Tōru AbeRailway Staff
- Sachiko MitaniApartment Owner
Reviews
Geronimo1967
An elderly couple leave their small fishing village to travel to Tokyo to visit their children and grandchildren. Armed with a small packed lunch and the most perfectly packed suitcase you will ever see, they embark on their train journey to the metropolis. Once there, though, they discover that though they are welcome enough - their son "Koichi" ((Sô Yamamura) - a paediatrician, and his beautician sister "Shige" (Haruko Sugimura) are pretty much caught up in their own lives and have little time to spend with their parents. In a land where duty is everything, this film depicts the rather unfeeling, though never callous, way in which the elderly pair are bundled from pillar to post, to a spa populated by youngsters and ultimately into the ca...