Tokyo Story (1953)

8.2/10 137 min Drama

Overview

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

Shukichi Hirayama

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

Mutsuko Sakura

Oden Restaurant Woman

Toyo Takahashi

Woman Next Door

Tōru Abe

Railway Staff

Sachiko Mitani

Apartment Owner

Ryōko Mizuki

Beauty Salon Customer

Keijirō Morozumi

Policeman

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