Tokyo Story

東京物語

1953 · 137 min · ★ 8.1 / 10 · 1269 votes

Drama

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.

Cast

Chishū Ryū · Chieko Higashiyama · Setsuko Hara · Haruko Sugimura · So Yamamura · Kuniko Miyake · Kyōko Kagawa · Eijirō Tōno · Nobuo Nakamura · Shirō Ōsaka

Director

Yasujirō Ozu