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Tokyo Story

Tokyo Story
★ 8.2/10•1953•2h 17m•10•Drama

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.

Yasujirō Ozu · Director

Kōgo Noda · Screenplay

Yasujirō Ozu · Screenplay

StatusReleased
Runtime2h 17m
LanguageJA
Release DateNov 3, 1953

Actors

Chishū Ryū

Chishū Ryū

Shukichi Hirayama

Chieko Higashiyama

Chieko Higashiyama

Tomi Hirayama

Setsuko Hara

Setsuko Hara

Noriko Hirayama

Haruko Sugimura

Haruko Sugimura

Shige Kaneko

So Yamamura

So Yamamura

Koichi Hirayama

Kuniko Miyake

Kuniko Miyake

Fumiko Hirayama

Kyōko Kagawa

Kyōko Kagawa

Kyoko Hirayama

Eijirō Tōno

Eijirō Tōno

Numata

Nobuo Nakamura

Nobuo Nakamura

Kurazo Kaneko

Shirō Ōsaka

Shirō Ōsaka

Keizo Hirayama

Hisao Toake

Hisao Toake

Osamu Hattori

Teruko Nagaoka

Teruko Nagaoka

Yone Hattori

Mutsuko Sakura

Mutsuko Sakura

Oden Restaurant Woman

Toyo Takahashi

Toyo Takahashi

Woman Next Door

Tōru Abe

Tōru Abe

Railway Staff

Sachiko Mitani

Sachiko Mitani

Apartment Owner

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