Tokyo Story
As long as life goes on, relationships between parents and children will bring boundless joy and endless grief.
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11/3/1953Runtime
137 minsGenres
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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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A quiet, unhurried meditation on the passage of time and the gulf between generations, watching an elderly couple navigate a strained visit with their busy adult children in postwar Tokyo. There is profound sorrow held gently throughout, without melodrama.
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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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