Tokyo Story
As long as life goes on, relationships between parents and children will bring boundless joy and endless grief.
8.2 / 10
137 minutes
1953-11-03
English
JP
Actors :
Chishū Ryū, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, Sō Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake, Kyōko Kagawa, Eijirō Tōno, Nobuo Nakamura, Shirō Ōsaka, Hisao Toake, Teruko Nagaoka, Mutsuko Sakura, Toyo Takahashi, Tōru Abe
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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Reviews
tmdb47633491
6/23/2021, 3:58:07 PM
A necessary film, in the way that vegetables are necessary.
CinemaSerf
7/26/2023, 8:40:18 AM
An elderly couple leave their small fishing village to travel to Tokyo to visit their children and grandchildren. Armed with a small packed lunch and the most perfectly packed suitcase you will ever see, they embark on their train journey to the metropolis. Once there, though, they discover that though they are welcome enough - their son "Koichi" ((Sô Yamamura) - a paediatrician, and his beauticia...