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Tokyo Story (1953)

★ 8.2/10 137 min Drama Japan Japanese
Director: Yasujirō Ozu
Screenplay by: Kōgo Noda, Yasujirō Ozu
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As long as life goes on, relationships between parents and children will bring boundless joy and endless grief.

Description

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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Top 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

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