Chishū Ryū
Shukichi Hirayama
Released
Tokyo Story
“As long as life goes on, relationships between parents and children will bring boundless joy and endless grief.”
U · 8 Feb 1965 · 137 min · Japanese
Drama
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The film
Synopsis
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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Cast & characters
Chieko Higashiyama
Tomi Hirayama
Setsuko Hara
Noriko Hirayama
Haruko Sugimura
Shige Kaneko
So Yamamura
Koichi Hirayama
Kuniko Miyake
Fumiko Hirayama
Kyōko Kagawa
Kyoko Hirayama
Eijirō Tōno
Numata
Nobuo Nakamura
Kurazo Kaneko
Shirō Ōsaka
Keizo Hirayama
Hisao Toake
Osamu Hattori
Teruko Nagaoka
Yone Hattori
Behind the camera
Key crew
- Director
- Yasujirō Ozu
- Writing
- Kōgo Noda, Yasujirō Ozu
- Cinematography
- Yûharu Atsuta
- Original music
- Takanobu Saitō
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