

Tokyo Story
1953 · Movie · 2h 17m
Drama
"As long as life goes on, relationships between parents and children will bring boundless joy and endless grief."
Overview
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.
Ratings
IMDb
8.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes
100%
Metacritic
100/100
Key crew
- Yasujirō OzuDirector
- Takanobu SaitōOriginal Music Composer
- Kōgo NodaScreenplay
- Yasujirō OzuScreenplay
Cast
- Chishū RyūShukichi Hirayama
- Chieko HigashiyamaTomi Hirayama
- Setsuko HaraNoriko Hirayama
- Haruko SugimuraShige Kaneko
- So YamamuraKoichi Hirayama
- Kuniko MiyakeFumiko Hirayama
- Kyōko KagawaKyoko Hirayama
- Eijirō TōnoNumata
- Nobuo NakamuraKurazo Kaneko
- Shirō ŌsakaKeizo Hirayama
- Hisao ToakeOsamu Hattori
- Teruko NagaokaYone Hattori
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Themes
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