Tokyo Story (1953)

Name: Tokyo Story
Released: 1953
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Chishū Ryū, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, Sō Yamamura

• Movies, Drama

• 137 min

8.2

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

Directed by: Yasujirō Ozu
Casting: Chishū Ryū, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, Sō Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake, Kyōko Kagawa, Eijirō Tōno, Nobuo Nakamura, Shirō Ōsaka, Hisao Toake, Teruko Nagaoka, Mutsuko Sakura, Toyo Takahashi, Tōru Abe, Sachiko Mitani, Ryōko Mizuki, Keijirō Morozumi, Shozo Suzuki, Haruko Chichibu, Takashi Miki, Toshinosuke Nagao, Zen Murase, Mitsuhiro Môri, Yoshiko Togawa, Fumio Tooyama, Tomoka Hasebe
Countries: Japan
Premiere: 1953-11-03
Status: Released

Tags: fish, beach, dreams, baby, coma, parent child relationship, peace, boat, cake, office, baseball, classroom, class, lantern, lie, marriage, tea, ambition, retirement, swing, family relationships, teacher, old man, honor, school, black and white, complicated relationships, interpersonal relationships

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.