Tokyo Story

• 8.177 Drama
• 1953-11-03
• 137 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Chishū Ryū (Shukichi Hirayama) Chieko Higashiyama (Tomi Hirayama) Setsuko Hara (Noriko Hirayama) Haruko Sugimura (Shige Kaneko) Sō Yamamura (Koichi Hirayama) Kuniko Miyake (Fumiko Hirayama) Kyōko Kagawa (Kyoko Hirayama) Eijirō Tōno (Numata) Nobuo Nakamura (Kurazo Kaneko) Shirō Ōsaka (Keizo Hirayama)

Director:

Yasujirō Ozu

Writer:

Kōgo Noda Yasujirō Ozu