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Tokyo Story poster

Tokyo Story (1953)

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.

Release: 1953-11-03
Runtime: 137 min
Rating: 8.168 / 10
Cast
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
Ryōko Mizuki
Ryōko Mizuki
Beauty Salon Customer
Keijirō Morozumi
Keijirō Morozumi
Policeman